Blog by Tag: English

Our reading lesson on Monday focused on fluency. We used model, echo and choral reading to accurately read the fifth labour that Heracles completed, after identifying and defining unfamiliar language. The children read the passage again with their partners using our reading skills. Some children…

In English, we considered why Heracles should and should not complete the twelve labours. The children used modal verbs within their responses to express levels of certainty and possibility. The children then told their responses to Heracles in a conscience alley activity. By the end of the alley,…

Using our “inspectacles” to improve our work - editing is an important part of the writing process.

To begin our English unit, we made predictions about our new class text, ‘The Twelve Labours of Heracles’. The children read with expression using the method of echo and choral reading and we really focused on the challenging pronunciation of Ancient Greek vocabulary. We read the first of the…

Some of our amazing writing this week! We have listened to the story of Little Red Riding Hood and used adjectives to describe the characters, checking capital letters and full stops in our sentences.

In English today, Class Three got into character for a hot-seating activity! We generated and asked questions to the main character during an interview to check everyone’s understanding of Olive at this point in the text.

In English this week, after reading Chapter Six of Letters from the Lighthouse, Class Three got into character and re-wrote Olive’s postcard home truthfully. They used an informal tone and included 1940’s vocabulary too!

In English, we sequenced an event in the story, ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’. The children worked in groups to order and represent part of Chapter One in the style of a comic strip before putting the parts together like a jigsaw to make a complete piece. The children in Class Three loved this…