Autumn 2 in Team AC

In reading, Team AC's year 3s have been working closely with Team CB , where they have continued to explore non-fiction texts linked to our topic of Mountains and Rivers. We have focussed upon the technical, subject specific language to develop our understanding of key terms and concepts across the curriculum. In addition to non fiction texts we also studied the poem A River’s journey by Angela Yardy which combined the true account of a rivers journey with features of personification throughout. These texts were fantastic for VIPERS based learning linked to vocabulary. We have also started to explore inference this half term. This was introduced through image stimulus to begin with to support the children in recognising the need for their own thoughts plus evidence from the stimulus in order to successfully inference. The class then worked hard to apply their views into a written response with sentence stems generated from the questions posed. Our year 2s have continued to develop their phonics knowledge through the RWI programme of study. They have worked hard to secure their knowledge of the different sounds which has allowed them to read with greater accuracy and become much more fluent with their reading.