Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

This week in Reading the students will be continuing learning how to locate text structures in narratives. 

VOCABULARY

Setting: The time and place where a narrative occurs.

Visualisation: The ability to use our five senses to imagine the descriptive details in a text.

Clause:  A group of words that includes a subject and a predicate.  

Subject: The part of the sentence or clause that contains a noun.

Predicate: The part of a sentence or clause that contains a verb

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

Using the satchel book of your child (or another book of choice), read the description of the setting in the story.  

Talk about it with your child and discuss how you imagine the place described - perhaps it reminds you of a place you have been or a place you wish to visit.

Guiding questions may include:

How do you feel about the setting?  What features of this time and place are appealing or unappealing?

What do the characters feel about the setting?

How do you know this?

Could this story have happened in any other place or is the setting important in the narrative?