Term+3+Focus+-+Reading

**Current Events Study with Mrs Mayston**
 * Term 3 Reading **

This term we are continuing to work on the AVAILLL programme which stands for Audio Visual Achievement in Literacy & Language Learning.

Some of the key novels/movies we are using to support our reading development are:

Peter Pan / Hook The March of the Penguins Bridge to Terabithia Holes

//You may want to read these novels yourselves to help further your understanding of the story or just for fun!!!//

Some of the key strategies AVAILLL is helping us to focus us on this term are:


 * Deeper comprehension: imaging (making pictures in your head as you read), inferring (using the clues in the story & what you already know to gain deeper understanding), evaluating (making a judgment and saying why), analysing/synthesizing (comparing/contrasting/sequencing/categorising), summarising (finding the main ideas from the text), and finding the main idea (using keywords/titles to identify the main ideas).
 * Building word vocabulary
 * Develop decoding and fluency (including reading with expression and reasonable pace)
 * Note-taking using the "Read it - Get it" and "Read it - See it" methods.