Primary 5 Literacy – Story Mapping

Primary 5 have been enjoying reading ‘Coraline’ as our class novel and have been working very hard using Active Literacy strategies such as Inference and Visualisation to discuss what we have read and develop our understanding.

As part of our comprehension tasks, we have been story mapping, using the Pie Corbett approach,  to show the main ideas and key points from each chapter to show that we can identify what took place and start to consider the important points of the text. We have also completed a story board task to summarise and show our comprehension of each chapter.

When story mapping, children consider the key events and use a mixture of images and descriptive words to create a summary. We then use this to re-read throughout the week and build upon, enhancing our knowledge and securing our understanding of each chapter. We think about what images would represent the concepts of the sentences we are writing and use these to help us quickly identify parts of the chapter, which we can use for follow up tasks.

Have a look at the Sway below to see some examples of our super work!

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Primary 6 – Mock Murder Trial

We have been learning about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots over the past 2 weeks. Today, we had a mock murder trial where we debated who killed Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

Some children played the roles of the suspects Mary, Queen Elizabeth and James Hepburn. While others played the judge and his assistants who were in charge of presenting the case to the rest of the class who acted as the jury.

It was a very fun afternoon with some very heated debates about who was guilty and what their reasons for murdering Henry Stuart would have been.

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