Tuesday 17th June 2025
Tuesday 17th June 2025
LC: Use active reading strategies to answer questions and draw inferences , and justify with evidence from the text using point and evidence.
Let's remember the order of events and summarise chapter 1.
What skills we need to find information?
Remember we need to know the order of events, scan for key words and phrases, skim read to check if the information we need is in the part we located, then use close reading to confirm.
Let's try with this:
Where had Auntie Betty copped it?
Who can find the part of the text that tells us first?
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Now you you answer these questions in your book.
Where do the hedgehogs live?
What are the names of the three daughters?
What animals lived in the park that weren’t in the garden?
What was Max’s full name?
What did Pa ask Max to tell him?
What is inference? As we are reading we are using clues the author has left for us to make sense of the text. For example:
George skipped into the room with a big smile on his face. His smile grew even wider when he saw all of the presents on the table, and a big cake with a number seven candle on the top.
What do we infer? How is George feeling? How do we know? Why is he feeling that way? How do we know? What else do we know about George?
What did you infer as you were reading the chapter?
Bad place to cross, that.’ Why do you think Pa says this?
Do you think the Park is good for hedgehogs? Why?
How do you think Pa feels about the road safety issues?
When we are introduced to Max on p5, what is your first impression of him? Explain your answer.
What impression of Max do we get on page 7?
Tuesday 17th June 2025
LC: To understand subject specific language.
Grammar
Immerse and imitate: main clauses, subordinate clauses, conjunctions and commas.
After Macavity committed a crime, he disappeared very quickly.
Macavity disappeared very quickly after he had committed a crime.
After many cat crimes were reported, the chief detective interviewed several eye witnesses in the neighbourhood.
Although the cat crimes have been investigated, no feline has been caught so far.
Macavity has been stealing again, You will take on the role of a detective and try and figure out all the things Macavity has stolen from our classroom. You can write these down on the post sticks you have been given.
P: To write a newspaper report on the crimes of Macavity.
A: The local neigbourhood.
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Teacher Model: Semantic map
Task: in your table groups you will be given some words, complete a semantic map for these words on the paper provided. We will be using these for our English learning wall.
resident
confusion
stockpile
looting
stash
prowl
dismay
appealing
petty crime
account for
wedged
escalated
Whole class reading:
paired reading cat ransacks woman.pdf
17.06.25
LC: To be able to read and write Roman numerals to 20.
Tuesday 17th June 2025
LC: Identify the different genres found in the Bible.
When we go to the library, we can choose from a large selection of books. These books contain different genres of writing.
With your group, , write down as many different genres of writing as you can.
Why do you think people write in these different ways?
What is the purpose of these genres?
Whose sacred text is this?
What do you already know about the Bible?
Unlike many other sacred texts, there are different versions of the Bible. People have rewritten it to make it easier to understand.
The Bible was put together over a long period of time and is really a collection of books, written by different authors at different times. It is like a library of books all put together.
The next image shows the contents page of a Bible.
We know that the Bible contains stories - we have read and explored some of them. But is it just a book of stories?
Look at a piece of text from the Bible. Do you remember it? What genre of writing is it?
There was once a man travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho, and on a lonely stretch of road some robbers attacked him. They stripped him, beat him up and left him half dead.
What about this one?
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails...
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Is it a story, a law, a psalm (poem or song) or a letter?
Now let's see if you can identify the genre of some more extracts from the Bible. For each one, write what type of text you think it is and why.
Choose from:
Psalm (song or poetry)
History
Narrative (Story)
A prophecy
A law
Parable ( Story with a message)
Proverbs (wisdom)
Letter
