Term 3 has been a wonderful time of celebrating learning @ Wyong PS. Our Book Week Parade placed literature in the spotlight and promoted the joy of reading.  In English lessons our students are developing their skills to understand and respond to literature through the study of mentor texts. Students learn to appreciate, reflect on and build knowledge about how language works. This will help them learn to make meaning when reading and viewing texts, and to create texts in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretative, critical and powerful.  

As parents, you can support this learning at home by: 

• providing many different types of books and stories that may be of interest to your child for independent reading, such as fiction, informative texts and comics.  

• sharing the reading of more complex texts – both younger and older children enjoy being read to.  

• critically discussing favourite characters, settings and plot lines in stories.  

• discussing the creators of books, films and songs; how they present their ideas and the different purposes for them. 

You may like to ask your child about the texts and textual concepts that they have been studying in class this term. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been reading and exploring.