Today MI visited the library and spent some time getting lost in our own books 🙂 We also enjoyed reading to others and sharing our stories.
Story telling week continues in MI
Category : Reading in Action
A great start to storytelling week in MI
Today each mini crew was given a story sentence opener! Children had to continue the story in their mini crew then share with the whole crew at the end! Some great expressive voices were used and some great language choices. Well done MI 🙂
National Storytelling week
We have kicked off Storytelling week by spending time reading our library book to a partner.
We used this as an opportunity to listen to different genres as some children find it difficult to decide on the genre they like to read.
The crew enjoyed this and this is something we’ll try to do more often.
Character fact building
We are very excited in Crew Shields as we’ve started reading a new text linked to our expedition. After reading chapter 1, the crew were asked to start collating information about the characters. This helped the crew build on their fact and retrieval skills as well as inference and summary. Fantastic to see some great crew collaboration.
Reading Volunteers Wanted!
Hello Everyone!
We are looking for some volunteers in Lower Key Stage Two to come into school and listen to some children read on a 1:1 basis.
Scarily, 1 in 4 children leave primary school unable to read well, resulting in life long consequences. It is our mission at Carcroft to ensure that all of our children leave our school able to read well.
If you have some time to spare, a day, a few hours or even an hour, and enjoy spending time with children then we would love it if you could come and help us to support our children with reading.
We hope that from this experience our children will become better readers and develop a stronger love for reading and for you to gain an enormous amount of pleasure from seeing the difference that a few hours can make to a child’s reading ability, confidence and enjoyment.
Ideally we would appreciate volunteers giving us their time until the end of the Summer Term, however if you are only able to commit to a few weeks or months then please do not hesitate to enquire.
If you feel like this is something that you can offer then please pop into school and ask to speak to myself, Mrs Elmer (KS2 Reading Lead) and I will provide you with more details.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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This week we ventured to the library where we chose our own book to read. We are thoroughly enjoying reading and having miss listen to us read.
Library Visit
Our First Week Back
It’s been a busy first week back but we’ve managed to have a lot of fun too. Watch our weekly roundup for just a snippet of the things that we’ve been doing!
First day back…
It has been a busy first day back as we caught on all the delightful things that happened over Christmas but also getting back into our routine. In Crew Shields, we find routines and structure very important so essential that we get settled in quickly.
We started the day with Crew and finding out what Santa delivered. Lots of very lucky children this Christmas.
We then started into reading which is a new text about the eye. We reminded ourselves about the importance of text marking and how this can support our comprehension.
During Expedition, we started with some hook activities to get us immersed in our learning. Absolutely great to see we have some history experts in the room. I may need to use that knowledge as we move through this expedition. We even started to infer what we think the guided questions may be based on what we’ve done so far. The big reveal will happen on Friday and no doubt we’ll be able to have some more guesses at the question.
Reading Superstars in KS1
Children in KS1 have been reading collaboratively to read their texts in phonics. We have had some speedy ready as well as fantastic compression skills!
