Wednesday 13 th November Natalie Camwell: Gosforth East Middle Rachel Turner: Throckley Primary

Natalie Camwell involved in Literature works for just over a year. Really enjoying and seeing the benefits of the approach. The first book I read was Aquila by Andrew Norriss.

Pictures about door ways into books…..

1. Activate prior knowledge (what do we already know?) 2. Predict 3. Read 4. Question 5. Clarify 6. Summarise

I have found that the children were most engaged when they themselves were the ones asking the questions. I asked my class to write their own questions on post its for others to answer. I was also able to challenge my more able readers to think about the reading skills they were asking someone to use when answering. We also talked about whether their question would warrant 1,2 or 3 marks in a test paper. This is especially useful in upper KS2 as children often don’t think carefully about how to answer.

Matilda extract…… What questions could you ask? Example. What are your impressions of Matilda’s dad when he says ‘ What d’you want a flaming book for? What skill would the reader need to use to answer your question?

Role play-(like good morning your majesty) One child is selected to guess which character from the book another child is portraying. Another child greets them and says something in character, uses body language. This can be made harder by only talking and the person guessing being blind folded. Write a letter to Santa as a character- what would that character wish for other than toys. E.g matilda might wish for nicer parents and teachers, or to be able to go to school, Bradley Chalkers might wish to be good at school.

We hope today has been a useful experience.