English

Autumn Term 1 2024

We will be using the text "Queen of the Falls" by Chris Van Allsburg to drive our writing this half term. This is an exciting and fascinating real life story of one woman's determination to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel! This high quality text will inspire us to write diary entries, descriptive writing and even Instagram posts around the theme of daredevils. 

Our Guided Reading sessions will use the text "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. This will link in with our writing and provide us with the opportunity to develop our prediction, retrieval and inference skils. 

Autumn Term 2 2024

We will be using the text "Star of Fear, Star of Hope" by Jo Hoestlandt to drive our writing this half term. Our final outcome will be a flashback narrative based on the structure of this powerful and moving book.

In our Guided Reading sessions, we will be reading the book "When We Were Warriors" by Emma Carroll. This book contains three stories all set during World War 2, which will feed into our written work and our topic sessions this half term. 

Guided Reading in action!