Spring 1 - Team DB

During this half term, Team DB's text driver was Private Peaceful by their acclaimed author: Michale Morpurgo. The class studied in detail the vocabulary used within the text, learning how this can be used in different contexts as well as applying into their own independent writing. To help the class build their knowledge further around the topic of World War 1, they used various non-fiction texts as well poetry from that era, again exploring the use of vocabulary which would help us with writing a non-chronological report. In addition, the class continued to develop their fluency, using the correct intonation and expression through rereading the given texts. To support understanding, they practised retrieval and inference skills through using the point and evidence techniques, establishing where to locate information within a text using both the scanning and skimming techniques that were developed in the Autumn term.