Category Archives: Reading

**Updated** Home-learning – raving reviews

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Aurora has sent in her Skellig raving review (above), whilst Erika has reviewed Women in Science, which is not a book I am familiar with, but has definitely piqued my interest, particularly after we celebrated Diversity Day with a focus on challenging gender stereotypes and were lucky enough to talk to Dr. Sarah Collington and Naomi Clarke.

Mia has reviewed Malory Towers by Enid Blyton, a book I enjoyed reading when I was younger.As ever, I would encourage you to comment and give constructive feedback on both the content and presentation of these pieces of work.

Home-learning – guided reading

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Hi everybody,

There appears to be an intermittent problem with the Bookscool website, which is frustrating as I know you need to access this to read Skellig online. We don’t know how long this website will be down for, so in the meantime, please use your reading session to focus on your home reading instead. Choose a selection of questions from the Guided Reading question cards and write them and the answers in your home-learning books. Please give detailed answers and reference the text where appropriate.

Guided reading question cards fiction

Guided reading question cards non-fiction

Thank you!

Pelhamory has arrived!

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Good news! My home copy of The Pants Project by Cat Clarke has arrived, and this afternoon I have been learning new editing skills. I’ve had to dig deep and use a growth mindset, because it’s definitely proved to be challenging, but now it’s done, I’m pleased with the results. So, here are the next instalments, chapter 31 (parts 1 and 2).  They follow on from Ms. Moores’ reading, which can be found here, on the Year 6 Home-Learning page.  Make sure you listen to the top bar first, otherwise you’ll be listening to the story backwards, in chunks… Enjoy!

 

The Book of Hopes

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Today sees the launch of this book (completely free), which is a collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures that has contributions from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators, including Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz, Greg James and Chris Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon, Jacqueline Wilson – and Katherine herself.

According to the National Literacy Trust, ‘The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons’.

I have just had a quick flick through the book, and particularly like Hope-o-potamus.  Let me know which poem is your favourite.

Your thoughts please…

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We’ve just finished reading this award-winning book, which tells the story of a refugee from Syria who joins a Year 5 class. Written from a child’s perspective, it is both humorous and poignant, which results in a very powerful text.  What do you think are some of important issues that this book raises about the refugee crisis?