In this week’s book talk, we had a game of fastest finger first. Miss Hamill asked us retrieval questions about the book and we had to find the answer within the text as quickly as we could!
Book Talk 📚
Category : Reading
Book Talk Round 2⃣in Crew MI 📚📖🗣🌍🌞🎨
We began today’s Book Talk session by completing an entry ticket to support us in developing our inference skills. We had to infer as much as possible from the picture given, it was tricky but with a few prompts from Mrs Elmer we were able to list lots! We then recapped the title, purpose, audience and genre of our current text and revisited the map (of Africa) that we had looked at in the previous session. We located Ethiopia and looked at the other countries that surrounded it. We soon realised that it was a ‘landlocked’ country. We then made predictions using the picture clues on the map to predict what we thought Ethiopia might be like. We then ‘echo read’ the text and everyone had a go at independently reading a sentence or two using the ‘round robin’ reading approach. As we read we discussed some of the new, more challenging, topic related words that we came across such as Rastafarians, murals and seized. We then looked at some reason to read questions that required us to ‘trawl for evidence’ in the text. 🕵 At the end of the lesson we then completed an ‘exit ticket’ to share some of the interesting facts that we had learnt about Ethiopia, such as did you know that they started the habit of drinking coffee?! ☕
Book talk in MI
Our entry ticket today allowed us to think about differences between two maps and we also gave our own personal opinions about the map we preferred. We explored each map together, thinking about what we can see. We thought about why the author may have chosen to show the maps in a different way and we voiced reasons for this. We used our inference skills to try and work out which part of Africa we would be looking at and thought about what we noticed about certain places. From here we read the text using a partner read, an independent read then we used a chorus read. As we read we explored specific vocabulary, unpicked phrases and discussed what we had read. We then looked at our reasons to read which showed us we had taken in what we had just read. Our exit ticket pulled all of our learning together. We drew a picture and described East Africa 🙂
Crew Marsh celebrates World Book Day 2024 📚
Today we had a variety of costumes in Crew Marsh to showcase our favourite characters. We listened to a range of stories and one of our favourites was “There’s a Dragon in your book” by Tom Fletcher. We really enjoyed this story because it was funny and we were all able to join in by using our imaginations it was great fun…just how reading should be! 📕❤️
World Book Day
A day to celebrate books! 🎈📚
Today we have talked about and discussed books. We took part in some quizzes, one of which was run by the National History Trust. This was really enjoyable as it was football themed and has lots of famous faces taking part.
We had a teacher swap which meant Miss Hamill came to read us our class text and Miss Shields went to read with Crew Thompson.
This afternoon, we had some time to do some word searches and colour our own bookmarks. It was lovely to see most people dressed up. We had a few Harry Potter characters with us today.
World Book Day 📚
Crew Hamill have had lots of fun today for World Book Day and so many of us got dressed up as our favourite characters! We began the day by joining a Zoom Meeting and taking part in the World Book Day Quiz which was so much fun. They tested our knowledge on all things football and reading! There were some tricky questions but we gave it our best go. We have also coloured some book inspired quotes and our own bookmarks which have been personalised with our names. We are going to use these in our reading books for when we read at home 🏡
World Book Day fun in MI :)
It’s been a busy few days in MI as we continue our activities in preparation for World Book Day! During story telling week MI created their own story and this week we have created our own front covers and blurbs to go with our creation. We are all so excited to put our story together 🙂
Crew in MI- World book day
In preparation for World Book Day on Thursday, Crew MI started to think about their favourite books favourite characters. We created an anchor chart to show our ideas.
We then thought about the reasons why we read and the places we like to read. We even discussed how we like to read! We enjoyed some time reading in these positions 🙂
We then listened to each other reading which was so lovely! We even circled up and did this 🙂 We have really enjoyed our activities today and are looking forward to more tomorrow.
World book day preparation in MI :)
Today MI read and shared a story with the children in foundation. They discussed the front cover and blurb with the children before reading the story. At the end they asked the children a few questions… Which part was your favourite? Which character did you like? Did you enjoy the story? Why? Crew MI loved sharing stories with the younger children and tried hard to use some expression whilst they read. A lovely time together in the library.
Demonstration Comprehension – Toad 🐸
This week, we had a really good discussion about the importance of demonstration comprehension and deepened our understanding of why we have this lesson. By working with our teacher, we were able to identify the key steps needed in order to read, understand and answer comprehension questions. By doing this, and listening to Miss Hamill as she talked us through her thought process, we were able to work in mini crews to answer some demonstration comprehension questions of our own.
