Reading

increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.

Comic strips

We looked at comic strips as a way to begin our work on myths

We read a few different myths and then looked at the features.

We began to try to piece together a myth by looking at the features of a comic strip and our knowledge of stories.

Theseus and the Minotaur

We have considered the character of Theseus and his actions.

We considered his actions and discussed whether they will have a positive or negative impact.

Perseus and the Gorgon Medusa

Module 2

Beast of Olympia: Beast Keeper

Pupils will be taught to:

increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.

Predicting and exploring the characters

We have looked at the skill of predicting and how these should be based on what we can see in pictures, from what people have said, the setting and events that have already taken place.

Our predictions allowed us to make links with our work on Greek Gods and Goddessses from module 1.

Retreival - characters actions

We created wanted posters for Zeus based on his actions in the text so far.

In pairs, we discussed what we would do to Hercules if we were Demon (the main character) and what we would do in real life if we saw somebody intentionally being unkind to living things. We made connections to our work in PSHE.

Module 3

The journal of Iliona: Young Slave

Predictions:

"I predict that Iliona and Apollo will get sold, escape and then return to where they came from." Ollie

"What could happen next is they go to a city wanted for salves and Iliona gets sold to a rich family but Apollo and Iliona will get separated." - Leighton

"What I think will happen next is that someone else is going to capture her then she will be their slave as well." - Poppy

" I think they get sold bu they escape and hide to Egypt on the ship but then something happens." - Maisie

"I predict that Appollo and Iliona are going to find a family but the family aren't nice to them." - Finley

"I think that the children might get sold to a man and do all the work for him." - Maya

"I think what is going to happen next is that Iliona and her brother Apollo will be sold as slaves that will work for the rich and powerful." - Selin

Making predictions about what may happen next using what we know so far.

Summarising events that have taken place.

We thought about the setting of the story using our retrieval skills.

Based on the description provided in the story we drew what we though an amphitheatre would look like.

We explored the vocabulary used by the author

We have been using thesaurus' to try and improve our vocabulary in our written work.

Module 4

Escape from Pompeii

To help conclude our work on Volcanoes and the Romans we reread a story which we read in Yr 3.

Inferring about a characters actions

Summarising the text

Inferring - Livia and Tranio behaved the way they did and ran away because they didn't want to get hurt from the dark, grey ash which was coming from the volcano. This wasn't the right thing to do as they could have drowned being in the bought if they didn't know how to swim or sail the boat. - Erin

Summarising - Tranio was always just wondering and he went to pay with his friend Livia. Then one day the ground started to rumble and ash clouds started to appear. The children ran to the boat for safety and hid under the rugs. The managed to escape. - Selin