We have been working really hard on our group novels and reading books.  We have been using a variety of reading strategies to work out the meaning of tricky words and looking at how an author uses inference  to get a message across to the reader.  We had great fun using the Internet to research animals linked to our books, such as wolves (The Last Wolf), African Elephants (Poppet) and owls (The Baby Owls).  Then we created our own fact files, posters and character profiles.