Reading

We continue our quest to become expressive and confident readers using a variety of strategies to help us continuously improve. These include making predictions, summarising our stories, being expressive, using effective questioning as well as using our phonics knowledge to sound out tricky words. We are all working really hard and love hearing and encouraging each other to read in our reading corner.

Writing

To help us improve our writing skills and confidence in our own abilities we have been looking at and focussing on different areas of VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation). We have been using our Viking topic to give us ideas about what to write about and so far have written fantastically descriptive paragraphs about dragons! We have been learning all about the use of adjectives to make our writing become easy to visualise when you read it. Some of us have made beautiful and friendly dragons and some of us have written about vicious and scary dragons. Once we have finished we assess our own work by looking at the different areas of VCOP which allows us to easily see what we could work on next time to make our writing even better.