As part of our Literacy work, P7Mc have been working at improving their skills for working out what new words mean (metalinguistics) when reading new texts.    We are finding that we can use different strategies such as reading on and back, partner or teacher discussions, replacing new words with words we already know and think may mean the same, then checking if it changes the meaning of the sentence.    We now only check the meaning in a dictionary as a last resort. We are currently doing this in pairs as we build up our confidence to doing it independently.  We are finding this strategy really useful as we read lots of different entries from Anne Frank’s diary as part of out topic work