Reading Block

The children have been enjoying shared reading each day. We have read a fiction text, ‘Harry McFarr’s Clunker Car’ and a poem, ‘The Blob Fish’. The students made an ‘Inside, Outside Circle’ to share their predictions about each text and connect with their own knowledge. We have been focussing on applying the following reading comprehension strategies; predicting, connecting, creating images, self-questioning and monitoring.

These are the wonderful ‘Wow Words’ the children found. They worked in their learning teams, using the dictionary to find the definitions. 

coughed

clanged

banged

rattled

popped

puffed

splutter

staring

flabby

blubbery

beady