Reedley Primary SchoolEnglish
Reading
Reading regularly is vital in Year 6 as it helps the children broaden their vocabulary, and enables them to make better progress in every curriculum area. It also helps them to become better writers as they begin to understand how different techniques can be used to interest the reader.
Reading has an enormous impact on children’s learning. For this reason, we have a huge focus on the teaching of reading. We use whole class reading sessions to improve children's understanding of reading skills using the VIPERS skills.
Fostering a love of books and reading is of great importance. If children enjoy what they are doing, they will learn more effectively. A love of reading leads to better life chances.
During whole class reading sessions, children investigate new and unfamiliar vocabulary, learn how to understand what questions are actually asking and how to best answer them. We also work on reading speed and accuracy.
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Writing Writing in Year 6 covers a wide range of text types. Through different genres of writing, children will learn the key features of text types and how to make good use of a range of grammar skills to improve the effectiveness of their writing. |
Autumn 1
The Piano
The Piano is a flashback narrative based on short animation by Aidan Gibbons.
Studying the film and the themes that run through short clip generates some fantastic speaking and listening opportunities as well as some amazing writing.
The children got a chance to listen to the music to see how it made them feel. they linked it to the past and remembered what happened. Then they listened to the music with the lonely man to began to understand his feelings and memories.
Whilst thoughts rushed swiftly through his mind, the lonesome man tapped his fingers gently on each key. Soothingly, the music reminded him of his past memories however unfortunately the music only made him remember the sombre, sad and depressing memories. Sorrow ran through him.
Autumn 1 - Flashbacks and Biographies
Year 6 are studying novels based on the Titanic and using the short animation of The Piano to inspire their own flashback writing.
We are also studying biographies this half term. We will be immersing ourselves in many different biographies and analysing the features of them to support our own writing. One of the biographies we use is Walt Disney's. Her is a link where you can find an online version: