1. Active Literacy
Powerpoint include information on the 6 reading comprehension strategies and spelling strategies

2. Pyramid of Learning

3. Reading 6 Comprehension Strategies Prior knowledge Metalinguistics
Visualisations
Inference
Main ideas/themes
Summarising

4. Prior Knowledge – Mind Map

5. Prior Knowledge
‘I’ve done a picture of the ship we’re sailing home on next week. She’s called the Titanic…
They say cats have nine lives, and that’s certainly true of Kaspar. From the glamorous suites of the Savoy Hotel to the servants’ quarters in the attic, and from a crowded lifeboat to the hustle and bustle of New York City, Kaspar proves that no cat is too small for big adventures. But then this is no ordinary cat. He’s Prince Kaspar Kandinsky – the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic…
Kaspar Prince of Cats’ by Michael Morpurgo

6. Metalinguistics Children note down unfamiliar/new words as they come across them in the text.
What I think they mean
Checked meaning

7. Visualisations
Many different ways to record how a text would be ‘visualised’.

8. Inference Try to give reasons for your answers. Who are they?
What are they whispering about?
Why are they whispering?
What do you think will happen next?
Are they being nice?
Inference is using facts, observations, and logic or reasoning to come to an assumption or conclusion.
It is not stating the obvious
It is not prediction
Inference asks "What conclusions can you draw about what is happening now?" Prediction asks, "What will happen next?"

9. Main Ideas / Themes
Harry Potter is not a book about magic, Hogwarts and wizards. It is a book about good triumphing over evil, friendship and loyalty.

10. Summarising
Always shorter than the original text. Can you please summarise the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in a tweet of no more than 6 words or 140 characters!

11. Spelling Strategies
Phonics – the sounding out of words, using the sounds letters make ( joined and individual)
Syllabification – breaking words into syllables. Each syllable will contain a vowel
Words within words – e.g. country – count example – exam, amp, ample
Compound words – breakfast break/fast

12. Spelling Strategies
Using analogy – if you can spell light – you can also spell bright, fright and tight
Mnemonic – children create their own memory aid e.g. could – oh you lucky duck
Separate – there is a rat in separate
Spelling rules– e.g. I before e except after c – brief - ceiling