Reading

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Read your available BUG CLUB BOOK and answer the comprehension questions.

Remember to use your reading skills:

• Fred Talk unfamiliar words. E.g- f-r-o-g
• Slide the syllables together. E.g fr og becomes frog.
• Chunk new words before putting them together to read. E.g book-let becomes booklet
• Refer to the illustrations (pictures) for clues
• Use the Read to me function to listen to the pronunciation of difficult words.
• Re-read words and sentences you’re unsure of to grasp the meaning.
• Most of all, write down new vocabulary and search for their meaning in dictionaries.
• Make sure you answer all the comprehension questions (quiz questions). This will help you to interpret the meaning of what you have read and also to practise your decoding skills.  

• Now, write a review about your book and share with your class teacher.

 .......and remember, 'The more you READ, the more things you will know.'  Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Dr. Seuss

Whole class reading comprehension activities

Learning Objective: To discuss favourite words and phrases.

Success Criteria:  

• I can read some new words.  

• I can explain the meaning of a new word.  

• I can use new words in my conversation.

Purpose of learning

To know the meaning of words they read, thereby enabling them to have a good understanding of the story.

Vocabulary: descendants, crested, basked, nightfall, reverence, galloped, roamed, ailing, sapling

Phrases- they are incomplete sentences.

• as tall as a mountain (what)  
•  rocks in fury (how)
• under a burst of lightning (what)
• battling the lashing rain(who)
• hollowing its inside (what)
• as fast as they could (how)

Key questions:

• What does the word ailing mean?
• Can you explain the word sapling?
• Read the last sentence on the last page. What does the word reverence mean? Use the pictures to help you.
• Can you say the synonym of ailing?

Activity 1

Go on a walk through the text of the week-looking at the front cover, title, blurb, author and illustrator.  

Read the story, highlighting new words and discussing the meaning with your adult. For a better understanding, you can draw pictures of your thinking to match the meaning of the new words or use them in sentences.

Task-activity 2

Book making-Choose 4 words from the story. Write their meaning and their synonyms in your mini book. Can you draw pictures to match your words? 

Challenge: Write your favourite phrase from the story, for example, 'as tall as a mountain,' and explain what it means. You can draw pictures to match it. 

Remember to create a title for the mini book and some sentences for the blurb.