Year 5- Reading Stay and Learn Information

Firstly we wanted to say a huge thank you to all of the parents, carers and family members who attended the reading session today.

We started the session by discussing the year 5/ year 6 national curriculum Reading objectives (please see below)


Word Reading
understand the meaning of new words that they meet.

Comprehension
recommending books that they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices
identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing
making comparisons within and across books
discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context
drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence
predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
summarising the main ideas
discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
provide reasoned justifications for their views


Our focus for the session was about inference.

Next, we shared a fabulous website called the 'Literacy shed' to inspire the children at home: LINK
On the website the Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources: music videos, animations, images and writing prompts.

We looked at the music video: LINK

We asked the parents and children the following questions and explained that we can use our inference skills all the time!

• Watch the first 20 seconds - how is the girl feeling? What makes you think that? What might she be doing?
• Pause just before a minute - how has the girl's feelings changed? Why do you think that is? What might she have lost? What could she do now that may help?
• Pause again at 1.42 - Has the girl's feelings changed even more now? Why do you think that maybe?
• Once the giraffe appears - are you shocked why? How does the girl feel now?
• Write a description of the giraffe - what does it look like? smell? feel?
• Research and write a non chronological report on giraffes.
• Write a set of instructions for keeping a giraffe as a pet.
• If you could choose any animal in the world to keep as a pet, what would it be and why? What would you do with them? How would you need to change your house to take care of it?

We really appreciate all of your continued support.
Thank you again from the Broadford Year 5 team!