Literacy

1. Literacy Reading, Writing, Grammar and Spelling

2. Guided Reading Children read in a small group with their teacher at least once a week. The teacher will listen to each person in the group and the whole group will discuss the text. We might discuss: • Why did the author choose to use to use a particular word? • What do we think is going to happen next? • Why a page is set out in a particular way.

3. ERIC Everybody Reads In Class Reading is the most important skill to develop, so we all have daily opportunities to read books of our own choice, and to practice with an adult if we find reading difficult.

4. We are encouraged to read for pleasure. Reading Competition Big Diamond Jubilee Read Scholastic Book Fairs

5. Writing for a purpose • We were asked to enter a poetry competition by Fairfield and Woodlands Care Home around the theme of Grandparents. The residents presented the children with prizes for the best entries.

6. Brian Moses came and read poetry to us. Some of us were lucky enough to do some writing with him, then we taught other children in our classes how to write poems like ours. Brian Moses

7. We didn’t see goblins in Goblin Mines, But we saw where the goblins had been. We saw rotten, green skin on the jagged grey rocks, That must have belonged to a tiny, emerald being. We discovered yellow mossy bones with gnaw marks engraved in to them by small, razor-sharp teeth. We saw rusty, ancient pickaxes Hanging on the stone grey walls. We found crudely carved statues with gems encrusted in to them. We didn’t find goblins in Goblin Mines, But this was the closest we’d been. By William

8. We visited the Beanie Museum to see and hear The author, Anthony Browne

9. Phonics We learn to decode words using the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics scheme. http://www.letters-and-sounds.com

10. Year 1 were tested on their use of phonics. They had to read nonsense words.

11. Listen to how well some of us in year 2 can read…. http://www.brompods.com