Good morning P6/7, I hope you’re all well and are taking care of yourselves. 😊❤

Today, why not have some quiet time and read a new book? We are lucky enough that this Harry Potter book is online for us to read for free!! You can either type this into Google or twitter:

https://twitter.com/GlasgowLib/status/1245345229131132928?s=09

Or, search for Glasgow Library on twitter and you’ll find it on their page. You could also search ‘free online Harry Potter book’ into Google and links will come up. I just followed a couple and they worked.

JK Rowling really works her magic with these books and waves her wand to create magestic characters using her imacignation (imagination) to come up with fantastic magictives (adjectives) to describe the characters and the setting.

Sorry for the puns, I was just witching (itching) to use them 😂😂

Challenges you could do while reading the book:

Think about the features of characterisation we have learned about and see if you can spot JK Rowling using any in her writing.

Visualisation – Why not use your visualisation reading strategy to draw any characters, setting or props from the book, based on the descriptions of these things that you have read?

Predicting – When you finish a chapter, use your predicting strategy to predict what is going to happen next. Or, when you’ve read a couple of chapters, predict what the ending of the book is going to be.

Summarising – After you’ve read about Harry’s aunt and uncle in Chapter 1, summarise what they are like by creating a character profile for them.

Paraphrasing – Choose a paragraph or a page of the book that you have read, use your paraphrasing strategy to rewrite that part of the story.

It’s magic what you can do with a book when you know the spell. OK, enough puns 🥴😂 If you don’t know what a pun is, that is another task for you to find out.

There are lots of tasks here to do but don’t feel you need to do them all at once. Start reading the book and enjoy it, enjoy the peace and being owl (all) on your own, enjoy your imagination running wild, enjoy being absorbed into the book and becoming part of the wizarding world. You’ll have a hoot when you meet Harry’s owl and you’ll be owling when you meet Harry’s cousin Dudley. 🦉🦉

Keep laughing troops, love you all,

Miss McCue xx