English
This term we will be:
- increasing our familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
- identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
- preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
- understand what we read, in books we can read independently, by:
- checking that the text makes sense to us, discussing our understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context
- asking questions to improve our understanding of a text
- drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
- predicting what might happen from details stated and implied