Novel-Based Reading Programme
We are using a novel-based approach for teaching English. Using real books in school encourages independent sustained reading, provides children with a chance to read for pleasure and enhances maturity in reading. We will be working with novels carefully selected to suit the children's reading ability and interest levels. Children will enjoy reading privately, but will also share in group reading sessions and will enjoy opportunities to discuss their favourite books and authors, share opinions and debate and comment on their personal interpretations of the characters and the plot.
Through the use of a novel we will work on reading and comprehension skills such as the following:
This term 1st and 2nd class are reading Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine and 3rd and 4th class are reading The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. We are having great fun...the only problem is trying not to read on each night!
Through the use of a novel we will work on reading and comprehension skills such as the following:
- Connect personal experience with a text
- Evaluate characters in a text
- Retell or review the events in a text
- Vocabulary development and dictionary skills
- Word attack and spelling strategies, for example, sounding out and chunking
- Dictionary work
- Understanding of grammar in context
- Empathise with characters through the use of drama and creative work
- Reading strategies, e.g. predicting future events, scanning for information, summarising and paraphrasing and re-reading
This term 1st and 2nd class are reading Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine and 3rd and 4th class are reading The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. We are having great fun...the only problem is trying not to read on each night!