Literacy:
Literacy is broken into three distinct areas of learning.
Comprehension:
The children's reading ability will continue to grow through their work on comprehension skills. All children will explore a range of fiction and non-fiction texts and respond to questions pitched at their level.
Comprehension skills will be developed further through work on the class novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree.
Grammar:
The children will look at a range of different topics in their grammar work this term which includes:
Revision of all parts of speech
Direct and Indirect Speech
Proof Reading
Suffixes and Prefixes
A range of other topics.
Writing:
The children are currently compiling their own balanced argument report based on a Victorian Workhouse and their novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree.
In their programme they have looked at:
The structure of a balanced report
The main features of a balanced report
Identified the difference between arguments for and arguments against
Planned a balanced report
Drafted and edited their own balanced report.