This week, Year 5 have practised a rang of reading skills using the same non-fiction text.
We started off by exploring and evaluating the text. This is a great way of ensuring we understand a text (and ones with read before) and helps us to become critical, reflective readers – we really enjoy it, too!
Challenge your child by completing the same activity with them about a book they’re reading at home.
Then, we practised our retrieval skills. However, we’re pretty good at retrieving information from the text so we had a challenge. Instead of being given the questions, we were given the answer and had to work out what the question would’ve been. Help at home by trying this strategy when you’re reading with your child.
In our next lesson, we learnt how to tell the difference between facts and opinions. We applied our knowledge by identifying some facts and opinions from the text. As a challenge, we created our own.
In our final lesson, we read and analysed another non-fiction text:
We evaluated the articles against each other, formed our own opinions and looked for similarities and differences. Ask your child which article they preferred and why.
