Active Literacy Pyramid of Learning Reading 6 Comprehension

Active Literacy

Pyramid of Learning

Reading 6 Comprehension Strategies • • • Prior knowledge Metalinguistics Visualisations Inference Main ideas/themes Summarising

Prior Knowledge – Mind Map

Prior Knowledge ‘I’ve done a picture of the ship we’re sailing home on next week. She’s called the Titanic… They say cats have nine lives, and that’s certainly true of Kaspar. From the glamorous suites of the Savoy Hotel to the servants’ quarters in the attic, and from a crowded lifeboat to the hustle and bustle of New York City, Kaspar proves that no cat is too small for big adventures. But then this is no ordinary cat. He’s Prince Kaspar Kandinsky – the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic… Kaspar Prince of Cats’ by Michael Morpurgo

Metalinguistics Children note down unfamiliar/new words as they come across them in the text. New Words What I think they Checked meaning mean

Visualisations Many different ways to record how a text would be ‘visualised’.

Inference Try to give reasons for your answers. • Who are they? • What are they whispering about? • Why are they whispering? Inference is using facts, observations, and logic or reasoning to come to an • What do you think will assumption or conclusion. happen next? It is not stating the obvious It is not prediction Inference asks "What conclusions can you • Are they being nice? draw about what is happening now? " Prediction asks, "What will happen next? "

Main Ideas / Themes Harry Potter is not a book about magic, Hogwarts and wizards. It is a book about good triumphing over evil, friendship and loyalty.

Summarising Always shorter than the original text. Can you please summarise the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in a tweet of no more than 6 words or 140 characters!

Spelling Strategies • Phonics – the sounding out of words, using the sounds letters make ( joined and individual) • Syllabification – breaking words into syllables. Each syllable will contain a vowel • Words within words – e. g. country – count example – exam, ample • Compound words – breakfast break/fast

Spelling Strategies • Using analogy – if you can spell light – you can also spell bright, fright and tight • Mnemonic – children create their own memory aid e. g. could – oh you lucky duck • Separate – there is a rat in separate • Spelling rules– e. g. I before e except after c – brief - ceiling