Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

This week in Reading, we will continue to learn how to summarise a fiction  text.

VOCABULARY

Summarise - telling the most important parts of a text, in your own words, in a much shorter way

Fiction - books that are made up, imaginative or pretend.

Sequence -  in order

Events - something that happens

Characters - a person in a story; either a human, a fantasy character, mythical character, or even an animal.

Setting - where a story or event takes place.

Problem - something that has gone wrong that needs to be fixed.

Solution - solving the problem

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

Get your child to talk about what a fiction text that they’ve read. Then they can  summarise the correct sequence of events in a fiction text  Prompt them to use proper vocabulary from the text read, like characters, setting, problem and solution in the summary of a fiction text. Similarly to last week, start with this  activity by doing it orally and/ or by drawing the pictures to represent the student's thinking and adding labels. Students can summarise orally to a sibling/ family member/ pet or their favourite toy.  

Students are encouraged to use different media everyday like orally on Monday, drawing pictures on Tuesday, using  technology on Wednesday,  using chalk to draw on Thursday and orally again on Friday.