Year 5 

Over the course of this term, students have begun being part of a Book Club/Reading Groups. These groups involve 4 rotations over 4 days, where students either read with a teacher, read allocated pages of their group text independently and summarise, complete a task that is related to the focus of the week/fortnight such as verbs, conjunctions, analysing a Hybrid text etc and the last rotation being a Bloom Ball task.

The Bloom Balls are a reading comprehension activity, where each week students apply their reading knowledge of their group text and carefully design a side following the reading focus for that week. The students look forward to all rotations, but this one allows their creativity to flourish as well as responding to the text in an engaging way. It consists of 12 sides and covers most reading strategies such as - visualising settings, vocabulary definitions, main idea, author's purpose, characterisation, summaries and many more.

Below are some photos to highlight the students' amazing efforts in responding to their levelled text. The first few we have covered so far in our Reading Groups are; designing the front cover, research about the author, new and interesting words and facts/opinions from the book. Please refer to some examples below: