5/6 NAVY

This term, 5/6 Navy have been focussing on questioning. During our reading rotations students have been exploring three types of questions:

• Online questions, which can be thought of as retrieving information that is clearly stated in a text.

• Between the line questions which can be thought as interpreting explicit information in the text and making connections between paragraphs within the text.

• Beyond the line questions which can be thought of as evaluative questions, which is interpreting and making inferences based on the knowledge the reader brings to the text from their personal experience (text to self), connections to other books they have read ( text to text) and connections to their world knowledge (text to world).

Students participated in some directed sessions where the teacher posed the different types of questions.

Then students experiment with posing these types questions to the group.

The reading group then tried to answer these questions, we discussed how successfully the student generated questions fitted into the 3 categories.  

The aim of these sessions is to help students understand the different types of questions and to apply appropriate thinking to successfully answer the differing questions types.

This supports student ability to comprehend a variety of texts.

Michelle Isaac

Class Teacher, 5/6 Navy

PREP BLUE

Term 1 in Prep has been about beginning to read!
We have been practising our blending and segmenting of sounds with compound words.

One of our favourite activities is ‘Switch it’, where we write a CVC word on our whiteboards and Miss Hill tells us to “switch it” to a new word. We need to listen for a different sound and switch one of our letters to another to make the new word.
Our focus in reading rotations has been on assessment this term, along with our letter sounds and book orientation. Our reading strategy focus has been Eagle Eye; using the pictures to give us a clue as to what an unknown word might be.

We can already read our spelling words from SMART Spelling and are already getting so much better at reading the sentence that goes with each word. Some children have even been spotting Oxford ‘star’ words in our SMART Spelling sentences!
Our class is very well represented at Reader’s Club on Tuesday mornings and it has been fantastic to see so many children doing their home reading so often; thank you families. The children have been very proud to receive their home reading certificates and it is amazing to see so many achieve in excess of 25 nights already!