• Early Emergent Readers. This is where pupils begin, it is the first step of reading development where pupils learn the basic’s such as alphabet mats, phase sound mats, phonics and large print picture books.
• Emergent Readers, this is the next stage of development where pupils understand all skills and tasks given in the first stage and can then go on and progress. In this stage pupils recognise diverse types of texts, understand many high-frequency words, start to learn the difference