Category Archives: Reading IDL 2016

Community, English & Literacy, Events, Homework, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016

Reading Open Afternoon

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As part of Scottish Book Week Primary 1 to 7 invited their family and relatives to teach them all about reading. Parents got to experience what a reading lesson is like in their child’s class and the range of activities and resources available. They were also given tips on how to support their child at home.

P4-5 leaflet: supporting-reading-at-home-

Tips for supporting reading in the early years at home.

Tips for supporting reading at primary stages at home.

What is Literacy in Curriculum for Excellence?

Reading book lists from the Scottish Trust.

The Nursery had a pop in and play event, allowing parent and relatives to see how their child learns through play in the Nursery.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, English & Literacy, Primary 5, Reading IDL 2016, Technologies

Reading in P5A

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We are learning to visualise characters, settings and actions by reading the text closely.

  • I can use my imagination to form pictures in my mind.
  • I can select the key language the author uses to help me to create pictures and can justify my thinking.
  • I can use my own experiences to make connections.

This week in reading we were learning about the skill of visualisation. We started by visualising people in the school and our partner had to guess who we were talking about from our clues.

Next we listened to chapter 7 of George’s Marvellous Medicine and we had to made notes oh how the author visualised characters, setting and actions. Now we will use this knowledge to help us create a piece of writing.

As part of Scottish Book week we have been running different events:

Novel Natters 

Primary 4 and 5 invited our Nanas, Papas and relatives of the older generation into school and we read a piece of our own writing linked to our IDL context for learning, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We had been asked to use our prediction skills to write chapter 7 of the book, using clues from the text and our knowledge of the author’s style to help us to make a realistic continuation of the story. Our Grandparents gave us ‘Nana’s Notions and Papa’s Praise’ feedback.

Book Week Afternoon

On Tuesday afternoon in P4 and P5 we had the choice of 2 different reading activities:

  • Creating a story using apps on the iPad
  • drama
  • reading games
  • using Purple Mash to create an animation

Miss Burton’s group created an animation of a book they had read. Click below to view some of the animations.

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNDMx Freiah

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNTg1 Freya and Niamh

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNDU3 Joel and Sorley

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzAx Maya

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzEw  Theo

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzIw Saskia

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzI4 Matthew C

https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzM5  Oliver

Reading in an Unusual Place

As part of Book Week we have asked pupils to tweet or bring in a photo of them reading in an usual place.

English & Literacy, Events, Primary 5, Reading IDL 2016

Novel Natters with Nana and Papa

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Yesterday, Primary 4 and 5 invited our Nanas, Papas and relatives of the older generation into school to join us for a Novel Natters session. We read a piece of our own writing linked to our IDL context for learning, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We had been asked to use our prediction skills to write chapter 7 of the book, using clues from the text and our knowledge of the author’s style to help us to make a realistic continuation of the story.

Our Grandparents gave us ‘Nana’s Notions and Papa’s Praise’ feedback, sharing what they thought we had done well in our prediction, what their favourite part was and ideas of how we could have made our piece even better. They even gave us a star rating.

We absolutely loved our Novel Natters session, so a big thank you to all those who attended. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

English & Literacy, Events, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016

Into Film Festival

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The Into Film Festival is a free, annual, nationwide celebration of film & education for 5-19 year olds and as a school we have attended the festival for the past 3 years. After the pupils have watched the film they analyse it in class and complete a film review activity.

Primary 4 watched Ice Age Collision Course, Primary 5 watched Inside Out and P6-7 viewed Alice Through the Looking Glass in 3D.

Primary 3 and 3/2 visited Edinburgh Zoo to view My Neighbour Totoro a Japanese fantasy film. They also took part in a workshop and had a quick tour around the Zoo.

Thank you to all the parent helpers who helped support the cinema visits.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, English & Literacy, Events, Homework, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016

Scottish Book Week Reading Challenges: 21st-25th November 2016

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Scottish Book Week: 21st-25th November 2016

Reading Challenge

To celebrate Scottish Book Week we are asking pupils to take a photo of themselves reading for pleasure in an usual place. To share your photo you can:

  • Tweet us your photo to @MidCalder_PS
  • P5-7 can take a photo into school on their own device (if they have signed their BYOD contract)
  • Take a copy of their photo into their class

These photos will be displayed in our new library area,

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SumDog Reading Contest 

We are holding a SumDog Reading Challenge from 21st -24th November. There will be a P1-2, P3-4 and a P5-7 contest.

Your child can take part in this challenge at home or in school, and the winners will be announced at Assembly on 25th November.

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Reading Open Afternoon

Parents and carers are invited to join us on Thursday 24th between 1:30-2:30pm to find out how we teach reading and how you can support reading at home.

The Nursery session will run from 10-11am for morning pupils and 1:30-2:30pm for afternoon pupils.

English & Literacy, Events, Primary 5, Reading IDL 2016

Novel Natters with Nana and Papa

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Last week Primary 4 and 5 started George’s Marvellous Medicine, their new IDL context for learning. As this will have reading as a key curricular focus, and the story follows the characters of George and his Grandma, we would like to invite our Grandmas, Grandpas and other relatives of the older generations to join us in a ‘Novel Natters’ session on Monday 21st November at 2pm. This will be a lovely opportunity for the children to read pieces of their own work to their Grandparents…we just hope that you are all a lot nicer and friendlier than George’s Grandma!

We look forward to nattering to you then.

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English & Literacy, Primary 5, Reading IDL 2016

Read All About It!

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Learning Intention: We are learning to skim and scan for information.

P5B have been using the First News newspaper to develop our reading skills this week. We learned about the skills of skimming for gist and scanning for specific information, then applied these skills when taking part in a news quiz. We were read a set of questions related to articles in this week’s First News edition and had to skim and scan to locate the answer as quickly as possible. We have also been learning how to ask and answer a range of questions about a text through our new IDL context, George’s Marvellous Medicine.

 

English & Literacy, Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

It’s all about the acting in P7/6!

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‘Alice’ the musical is well under way and in preparation for this P7/6 have been looking at play scripts and how they differ from stories.

LI: We are learning to identify the differences between a play and a story.

SC: I can identify stage directions

I can identify dialogue.

I can confidently discuss the differences.

Pupils have been looking at a story and how this could be changed into a script. Children had to identify dialogue and stage directions then had the opportunity to write their own dialogue and stage directions and act this out in front of the class. I can safely say, we have a very talented bunch in P7/6.

All of the upper area are working very hard at the moment to perfect our performances  for the show in a few weeks time. We are very busy making props and scenery and everyone is involved. We look forward to sharing our talents with you soon.

Miss Anderson

 

English & Literacy, Reading IDL 2016

P4b’s Marvellous Character Descriptions

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Learning Intention: We are learning about the key features of a character description.
Success Criteria:
– I can discuss the key features of character descriptions and can highlight these on given examples.
– I understand what a simile is, can give an example and highlight a simile in a piece of text.
– I can plan a character description for George/Granny from George’s Marvellous Medicine using ambitious vocabulary and similes.

P4 have started their novel based IDL Topic on Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine this week. In writing, we have been looking closely at character descriptions and what key information authors include in their stories to help us build up a picture of the characters in our imagination. We worked in pairs to highlight key character information from different pieces of text and then used this to help us plan our own individual character description of George or Granny.

English & Literacy, Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Primary 7 are “acting” up a storm!

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This term’s IDL focus, linking Literacy and Expressive Arts, is all about getting musical and creative with Alice in Wonderland.

In our Literacy lessons we have been learning about playscripts as a genre and how they differ from a traditional story text.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to identify the features of a playscript.

Success Criteria:

I can identify the purpose of a playscript text.

I can confidently discuss the differences between a fictional text and a script.

I can explain what stage directions, dialogue and actions are, relating them to how an actor would use them in real life.

We have begun working on Alice the Musical, our wonderful production, and are all busy learning lines, dance routines and movements and of course, tuning our voices to be able to sing the tracks.  We look forward to sharing our show with you and showing off all of the different talents we have in Mid Calder Primary!!