Today we continued our book talk session 🙂 We started by recapping our key vocabulary, this was something we text marked when we started to read. We all took part in a read around the robin as we read, a partner read then we tried a speed read. This helped us to work on the speed of our reading and helped us to become a little more fluent. We tried to circle any other vocabulary that we didn’t understand and we then discussed this as a whole crew. We discussed different parts of the text as we read, discussing anything that surprised us! Lots did in todays session! Our reasons to read part of the lesson assessed what we had read and generated some great discussions about the text. So many of us were eager to voice our opinions about what we had read. Quite a few facts surprised us today and this added to a great book talk session with so much discussion around the text.

Today we started a new text, ‘Africa, Amazing Africa.’ We started the lesson with a silent conversation where we explored the front cover and then the blurb. We then explored features of non fiction texts and played some games using the contents page and glossary. From here we started to unpick some of the vocabulary that will appear in our first few pages. We used pictures to help us with the vocabulary and tried to put the words into context. Tomorrow we will continue our book talk session where we will start reading the text 🙂 We are all eager to explore our new text further!

Our entry tickets allowed us to make predictions on our new text. We used the pictures and title to help us with this. We made notices and wonders then made links to previous stories we had read. We then unpicked the title and again thought about what may happen. From here we explored our new vocabulary and tried to think of examples when we had used each word. From here we started to explore the text. We text marked our new vocabulary as we read. We were asked lots of questions about the text as we read, assessing our understanding. We then thought more about the setting and we drew our ideas! We really loved doing this. We used the text to support us and tried to label what we had drawn. We then shared this with a peer 🙂