Reading Term 1

Key Ideas to find out and understand:

What language features do authors use to create a picture in their readers mind?

Recognise examples of descriptive language features including metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, repetition and onomatopoeia.

This Weeks Tasks:

1. Language features jigsaw

2. Language features text analysis activity

3. DLO on language feature of your choice including definition, purpose and example.

Key Ideas to find out and understand:

How does the post it note war come to an end?

The impact of the notes on each of the friends. How did their friendship change?

This Weeks Tasks:

1. Complete the comprehension questions based on last weeks reading.

2. Choose a follow up activity from the novel study slide to complete.

3. Vocabulary task

Key Ideas to find out and understand:

Who is John Mason Anderson? Tell us some interesting facts.

What books has he written? Who does he write for? What is his inspiration?

This Weeks Tasks:

1. Complete the comprehension questions based on last weeks reading.

2. Choose a follow up activity from the novel study slide to complete.

3. Vocabulary task

Key Ideas to find out and understand:

Who the key characters are in the story.

We learn about these characters by their thoughts, words and actions

This Weeks Tasks:

1. Complete the comprehension questions based on last weeks reading.

2. Choose a follow up activity from the novel study slide to complete.

3. Vocabulary task

Key Ideas to find out and understand:

What a catalyst is and how this relates to the story.

What the initial problem/conflict is in the story?

This Weeks Tasks:

1. Complete the comprehension questions based on last weeks reading.

2. Choose a follow up activity from the novel study slide to complete.

3. Vocabulary task

WALT: Make predictions based on prior knowledge.

Key Ideas to find out and understand:

This Weeks Task:

1. Pre-reading prediction chart using the pictures, the title, the blurb and then the authors clues.