Using ‘known text’ eg Cinderella to identify langua ge features.
* monitor their reading for accuracy and sense and have the confidence to adjust their reading (including adjusting the speed of reading, rereading, and attending to the most important information) when they encounter difficulties;
Group task, perform for class then critiquing re accuracy
*draw on a repertoire of comprehension strategies to assist their understanding of information and ideas in texts and can explain how using these strategies helps them make meaning;
Teacher Notes
Use for planning. Linked into EAsttle. Specific focus support. Hooks into School Journals
Plenty on the web or generate own
·*can locate information in a variety of texts, using a repertoire of strategies that includes skimming, scanning, identifying key words, topic sentences, and key questions, and using subheadings;
Place in student library for learners to explore and skim, scan for inspiration, ideas and support.
Wikipedia is in here as a source for scanning and skimming for information. Webquests would be good here.
·*use strategies to compare and evaluate information and ideas across a small range of texts;
Encourage students to use thinking tools to support their reading
·*can identify and reflect on writers’ purposes and on the ways in which writers use language and ideas to suit their purposes, e.g., by using vocabulary to set a scene or develop a mood;
·*regularly read for sustained periods (thirty minutes or more) and can sustain meaning in longer novels and across a variety of texts on a single topic over several days.
Student, interactive rich reading resource (A paid resource)
Ready to Read CDs, talking books -children can read along or be read to
·*can make text-level choices
(e.g., about text type and text form)
to suit the intended purpose and audience
and routinely plan for writing, using
a variety of planning activities;
Writing Fun and Ideas to Inspire are writing portals with ideas on all writing genre
Skrbl can be use to generate words -paste these into**www.wordle.com** for display
*can make sentence- and word-level choices to select the best language for the purpose and audience (e.g., precise and descriptive words to create a mental image or to imply meaning, short sentences to build tension, and complex sentences to add detail);
Enables children to drop in words over images
Comic Life needs to be purchased but allows writers to identify keywords, to shape images and words
·*draw on their knowledge of how words work (e.g., how all basic sounds and patterns are written in English, including prefixes, suffixes, roots, and spelling patterns) and of word derivations to fluently and correctly encode most unfamiliar words, including words of many syllables;
Using images and music to inspire and motivate eg picture for a paragraph
Writing Fun website has interactive links for students
·*achieve cohesion by using some devices, such as pronoun references and lexical chains;
* use grammatical devices that reflect register and text type (e.g., variety in use of tenses where appropriate) and have some control over complex grammatical structures that communicate increasingly abstract ideas, such as noun clauses and adverbial clauses of reason;
·*have automatised the basic skills for writing words (handwriting, spelling, and punctuation);
By the end of Year 6
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
VocabGrabber
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm
BBC and Woodlands sites portals for Reading, and Writing activities (online)
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=46
www.timelessteachersstuff.com
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/professional/teachers_notes/school_journal/index_e.php
Webquests
Use for planning. Linked into EAsttle. Specific focus support. Hooks into School Journals
Plenty on the web or generate own
http://www.nz-interface.co.nz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia is in here as a source for scanning and skimming for information. Webquests would be good here.
http://arb.nzcer.org.nz/searchenglish.php
www.ziptales.co.nz
Ready to Read CDs, talking books -children can read along or be read to
(e.g., about text type and text form)
to suit the intended purpose and audience
and routinely plan for writing, using
a variety of planning activities;
http://bubbl.us/edit.php
http://www.writingfun.com/
http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/inspiringwriting.htm
http://www.skrbl.com
Writing Fun and Ideas to Inspire are writing portals with ideas on all writing genre
Skrbl can be use to generate words -paste these into**www.wordle.com** for display
**http://plasq.com/comiclife-win**
Comic Life needs to be purchased but allows writers to identify keywords, to shape images and words
Writing Fun website has interactive links for students
**http://etherpad.com/**
Etherpad allows a piece of writing to have feedback from other writers as well as editing.