English

Vehicle Text 'Where The Wild Things Are' (Maurice Sendak)

    Reading focus

• Read words containing taught GPC's and -s, -es, -ing, -ed, -er and -est endings
• Listen and discuss a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
• Link what they read or hear read to their own experiences
• discuss word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known
• Make inferences on the basis of what is being said and done 

Writing focus: Genre - Portal Narrative and Non - Chronological Report

• Spell words cotaining each of the 40+ graphemes already taught
• Spell common exception words
• Develop knowledge and understanding of prefixes and suffixes (pluarals, prefix 'un' and use of  suffixes with no change to the root word)
• Handwriting - form lower case and upper case letters in the correct direction

*We will also be focusing on topic (non-fiction) books relating to 'Paws Claws and Whiskers'.