Spring 1 - Team CB

In Reading this half term Team CB have been working on the text the Firework Maker’s Daughter as their text driver. The class have studied extracts of the book as well as various linked texts to deepen their understanding of key themes and different genres of writing. The children have studied fiction, non-fiction and poetry over the half term and developed a growing understanding of new words or vocabulary which has an alternative meaning in another context. They have spent time building fluency through the support of text marking. This is where children underline any words that are emphasised and add / to our text to show pauses. This allows the children to read the text fluently and ensures everyone reads it in the same way. Following work on fluency and vocabulary, they have then interrogated the text to answer questions which require deeper thought. These may have been inference based or explanation style questions which required the class to use the text as evidence. The class have then applied this understanding to answer or generate their own comprehension questions.