Autumn 1 in Team CB

In reading, Team CB have worked really hard to unpick non-fiction texts. We have linked our reading to our topic of Mountains and Rivers and used the non-fiction texts we have selected to support our understanding of this area. Vocabulary and retrieval have been our key VIPERS focus. The class have spent time each week unpicking texts and using images and actions to develop an understanding of unfamiliar words, enabling them to use these in context and explain their meaning. We have then built upon our fluency skills through choral reads and echo reading. The class can explain what expression and intonation is and are beginning to effectively model this in their own reading. During the latter part of our weeks, we have concentrated on retrieval based comprehension questions where the children have developed a clear procedure for locating information – Read the question, identify key information, skim/scan for target language, re-read the question and form an answer.