Language & Literacy – During Term 3

Talking & Listening

• Developing active listening skills in all areas of learning.
• Expressing thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to stories by significant authors.
• Retelling stories orally.

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

• Reading with intonation and expression appropriate to the grammar and punctuation.
• Recognising and read HFW quickly in context
• Developing comprehension skills – literal and inferential (including prediction).
• Understanding the terms author and illustrator.
• Being able to distinguish between fiction and non-fiction.

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

• Spelling: segmenting and blending phonemes to build words, working on the concepts that: two/three/four letters can show one sound.
• Identify nouns and verbs in simple sentences.

• We will continue to work on developing sentence structure and punctuation.
• Begin to Check work for simple punctuation, grammatical and spelling errors

Examples of writing tasks will include:

• Non chronological reports about rainforest animals.
• Writing letters to save the rainforest
• Creative writing tasks based on class novel – The Bog Baby
• Explanations linked to the lifecycle of a butterfly

World Around Us (Topic Work)

Our topic for April and May will be the ‘Rainforest’ and in June we will be looking at Minibeasts. The children will also be developing knowledge and skills in various area of the curriculum. Some of the activities we will be involved in include:

Rainforest…

• Learning where the rainforests are
• Layers of the rainforest – making our own rainforest layer
• Animals of the rainforest - researching and creating fact files on different rainforest animals
• Plants of the rainforest
• Deforestation
• Fair trade