Reading
Our Class Text and Comprehension
In term 1 and 2, our reading comprehension lessons will be based upon our class text, “Stig of the Dump” by Clive King. We will follow Barney’s adventure which begins when he meets a stone age boy living in a chalk pit near his Grandmother’s house. Our focus will be on predicting events in the story and retrieving information. We will find and explain the meaning of words in context and draw inferences such as characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives for their actions.
To find out more about this text, view our “Stig of the Dump Knowledge Organiser.”
For further information about the reading skills we will focus upon this term, please view “Pankhurst’s Sequential Reading Curriculum”
Independent Reading
In class, we will continue to use the Accelerated Reader program. For further information about this, please view a Parent’s Guide to Accelerated Reader. (https://help.renlearn.co.uk/AR/ARParentGuide) If you need your child’s AR password, please contact me (Mrs Reeves).
Writing
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Punctuation
This term we will identify and highlight direct speech in written texts, model the use of inverted commas to indicate direct speech and revise the use of comma to separate items in a list. We will also revise questions marks and exclamation marks so that we use them reliably.
Grammar
This term we will learn to identify nouns, revise the function of statement, question, command and exclamation, we will look at sentence structures, past tense and develop our understanding of standard English. We will also express time, place and cause using a range of conjunctions. In term 2 we will introduce noun phrases, study irregular past tense and begin to identify the main clause in a sentence.
Spellings
During our spelling lessons this term, we will learn how to spell words with the “v” sound at the end of words, we will be adding “-ing” and “-ed” to the end of a word, focus on words that end in “y” and introduce the prefix “-un” and “-dis”. In term 2 we will introduce the prefix “-dis”, the “a” sound before “l” and “ll” for example walk, ball etc, adding “-er” and “-est” to a word, the new consonant spellings “wh” and “ph” words and the prefix “re” will be introduced.
To view our weekly breakdown of our spellings, please view our Term 1 and Term 2 Homework Grid.
For further information about the writing skills, we will focus upon this term, please view “Pankhurst’s Sequential Writing Curriculum”