Friday 11th May

This Tuesday in English we got into our guided reading groups and read pages 30 – 33 of ‘The Iron Man’. As well as reading the next part of the story we also had to highlight some of the grammar that the author Ted Hughes was using in the text. For a start we looked at the ‘Expected sentences at Wenhaston’ slides on the whiteboard and decided what grammar we were going to be looking out for when reading with each other. We decided that what we were looking for was: capital letters at the start of sentences; capital letters for proper nouns;  expanded noun phrases; correct choices of verb tense; use of apostrophes for contraction; use of prepositions (for time, place and cause); use of apostrophes for possession and use of speech marks. To each of these grammar aspects we assigned a colour that we could then highlight them with when we found them in the text. After reading and highlighting the text in our groups, the class came back together at the end of the lesson and discussed what each group found.