Literacy

Year 5 students in Reading, will focus on: 

• Students will not only give and receive feedback during paired fluency sessions but once a week they will also record themselves and listen back to reflect further on the following four areas; accuracy, rate, punctuation and expression. 
• Expand our vocabulary with targeted word study which covers the meaning, history, and use of words, empowering students to employ a variety of language for various purposes
• Be part of the collaborative experience of our serial read, Tom Appleby, Convict Boy, where they will be invited to draw on their perspective and make comparisons to their own lives in an inferential way. 

Year 5 students in Writing, will focus on: 

• Summarising sentences, adding appositives, differentiating between different conjunctions and note taking. 
• Reflect on their assessments of writing and take on feedback to make their writing even better! 
• Explore the language, sentence structure, and features of information reports and other writing genres. 
• Apply what is known about conventional spelling, grammar, punctuation, and structure to improve the quality of their pieces. 

Year 6 students in Reading will:

• Develop their background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy skills through listening and responding to our class serial read, Once by Morris Gleitzman, making connections to similar texts, their own experiences, and personal perspectives while drawing inferences and comparing aspects of the story to their own lives.
• Read, spell, and analyse words with Greek and Latin roots. 
• Take part in daily Paired Fluency sessions to strengthen reading fluency, focusing on accuracy, reading rate, and prosody, while building overall reading ability through regular opportunities to give and receive constructive feedback with a peer of similar reading ability.

Year 6 students in Writing will:

• Identify and add relative clauses in sentences
• Identify and add appositives in their sentences
• Learn about the purpose, structure, and features of an information report
• Use note taking to assist planning to write an information report
• Plan and write an introduction and three main body paragraphs for an information report 
• Use single Paragraph outline (SPO) to summarise a text
• Use subordinating conjunctions to improve sentence structure.