Reading in Year 5

Students in 5 Williams have been working hard on their understanding of texts using a range of reading comprehension strategies. Their focus at the moment has been understanding the main idea of texts and categorising these into a hierarchy.

Students have enjoyed gaining a better understanding of how to identify the main idea of a text and putting it into a hierarchy to gain insight into how authors best highlight their main ideas. The students have been focussing on two different texts ‘Boy Overboard’ & ‘Songbird’ as well as many short texts to analyse as a class. We have also enjoyed continuing our conversations about different books we are reading as we have been inspired by the authors who have visited the college, and being part of National Simultaneous Storytime

Bryony Williams
Year 5 Teacher