6G Literacy Groups

Squares

Term 1

Week 5
Triangles

Springboard Comprehension focus: Fact and Opinion

Circles Diamonds Stars

Monday

Read Springbooards Let There be Rock

Read Springbooards Let There be Rock Poetry and Ipad BLM-Fact and Opinion Shool Mag. Creative writing Novel - Poster Tag galaxy

Read Springbooards Defying Gravity Novel - Poster Tag galaxy Poetry and Ipad BLM-Fact and Opinion Shool Mag. Creative writing

Read Springbooards

Read Springbooards The Cackleberry Whats The Real Story Creek Foghorn Shool Mag. Creative writing Novel - Poster Tag galaxy Poetry and Ipad BLM-Fact and Opinion BLM-Fact and Opinion Poetry and Ipad Novel - Poster Tag galaxy Shool Mag. Creative writing

Tuesday

BLM-Fact and Opinion Shool Mag. Creative writing Novel - Poster Tag galaxy Poetry and Ipad

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Activities BLM: Complete both pages of your BLM comprehension sheet School Mag: Heat - creative writing for a cold day Novel: Use Tag galaxy to find images to represent London to help create a poster to advertise a holiday Poetry: Read examples of Roald Dahls poetry-discuss similarities/differences to Retractable teeth from school mag. Ipad :apostrophes of possession and contractions

6G Literacy Groups

Term 1

Week 4
Triangles

Springboard Comprehension focus: Fact and Opinion

Circles Diamonds Stars

Squares

Monday

Read Springbooards Snake On the Loose Write facts and opinions from book School mag

Read Springbooards Snake On the Loose Novel-Write all about you Write facts and opinions from book School mag

Read Springbooards Snake On the Loose Grammar from school mag Novel-Write all about you Write facts and opinions from book School mag

Read Springbooards Local Coouncil School mag

Read Springbooards Smith Diaries Novel-Write all about you School mag

Tuesday

Wednesday

Grammar from school mag Novel-Write all about you Write facts and opinions from book

Thursday

Grammar from school mag Novel-Write all about you

Grammar from school mag Write facts and opinions from book

Friday

Grammar from school mag

Activities: Comprehension: Look for language to support an opinion or fact Ipad; recording voice SchoolMag; Read Retractable Teeth with expression and fluency, record using educreations or puppet pal app : Read Granny to identify simple and complex sentences Novel: Write a story about you (1 page)

6G Literacy Groups
Squares

Term 1

Week
Triangles

Springboard Comprehension focus: Fact and Opinion

Circles Diamonds Stars

Monday

Newspaper Vocab dev Ipad Poetry

School mag Ipad Newspap er Poetry

Poetry Vocab dev Spelling dev Vocab dev Compreh ension newspap er poetry

Comprehension Spell dev School mag Poetry

Comprehension Spell dev Poetry

Tuesday

Wednesday

Compreh ension School mag

Vocab dev Vocab dev

Spell dev

Spell dev

School mag Newspap er

Thursday

Vocab dev

Compreh ension

Spell dev

Newspap er

Spell dev

Activities Comprehension: Comprehension worksheet (graded) from .. Poetry: Create a bank of words and phrases around your disgusting poem topic. Use website scholastic to find a poem framework/ or create a free verse. SchoolMag Sentence building. Read a story (your choice ) from your school mag. List 10 dependent clauses and write them into your English book. Give them to a group member to use. Each one needs to be added to create a complex sentence Newspaper: Read articles, locating and writing down facts and opinions. Make observations from those written by community members and those by reporters for the paper

Spelling: Differentiated vocabulary and spelling activities

Literacy Groups

Term 1

Week 7 Triangles Read Springboards Looking Cool Ipad Vocab Vocab Spring boards School mag Visual literacy

Springboard Comprehension focus: Main Idea Circles Read Springboards Piracy Vocab Spell dev Ipad Spring boards Visual literacy School mag Diamonds Read Springboards Plagues Spell dev Spell dev Spell dev stars Read Springboards Green All Around Visual literacy School mag Spring boards

Squares Monday Read Springboards Looking Cool Vocab Ipad Vocab School magazi ne Write Spring boards

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday (part 2)

Visual Spell Literacy dev Write School mag Spell dev Spell dev Write

Visual literacy

Write

Write

Springboards

Activities: Comprehension: Read selected pages of Springboard books and from modeled practice locate the main idea and supporting details of paragraphs and pages School Mag: Read the play MakeEm laugh. Discuss use of literacy device of humour and sarcasm through the play on words. Students create their own innovations Read the Visual Literacy :Read, Observe and respond to Collin Thompsons book The violin man. Answer directed questions related to the illustrations. Discuss students overall observations and how the author develops the charater through text and picture. What would be effective background music for this book? Write: Picture response. Students look at a picture and use it as a stimulus to write descriptively about a character and what they are doing. Emphasis on simple and complex sentences. Spelling: Differentiated vocabulary and spelling activities

Literacy Groups

Term 1

Week 8

Springboard Comprehension focus: Main Idea

Squares Monday Read Springboards Vocab Ipad Vocab

Triangles Read Springboards BLM

Circles Read Springboards

Diamonds Read Springboards

Stars Read Springboards Spelling School dev Mag (1)

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

School Ipad Mag (1) Compre Vocab hension BLM Vocab

Spelling Compre Spelling BLM dev hension dev

School Vocab mag (1) dev

School Spelling School Spelling BLM Mag (1) dev Mag (2) dev Spelling Compre Spelling School dev hension dev Mag (2) School Mag (1) Comprehension

School Spelling School Mag (2) dev Mag 2 BLM

School Mag (2)

Comprehension

Activities: BLM-comprehension questions using focus skill of finding the main idea with their Springboards book Comprehension-revising highlighting key words in question to locate information in the text School Mag (1) Writing-Pen name Comp. Read article on Pennames and write an 80 word introduction to hook a reader using the title Lost or Magnificent Mistake. School Mag (2) Read a story extract from school mage-Bundle of Sticks or The Wolves of Willouby Chase. Students write their opinion of the text and then use an ipad app to create a response to the story Spelling: Differentiated vocabulary and spelling activities

Literacy Groups

Term 1

Week

10

Springboard Comprehension focus: Main idea

Squares
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Speech Writing Structure/content Vocab Ipad Vocab Podacst for Novel Speech writing

Triangles
Speech Writing Structure/content Ipad Vocab Podacst for Novel Speech writing Comprehension Cubes

Circles
Speech Writing Structure/content Podacst for Novel Speech writing Comprehension Cubes

Diamonds
Speech Writing Structure/content Podacst for Novel Speech writing Comprehension Cubes

Stars
Speech Writing Structure/content Podacst for Novel Speech writing Comprehension Cubes

Comprehension Vocab Cubes

Friday

Activities

Literacy Groups

Term 1

Week 11

Springboard Comprehension focus:

Squares
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Prep for VCC Prep for imovie for novel Vocab imovie Ipad Vocab speeches Easter craft

Triangles
Prep for VCC Ipad Vocab Vocab imovie speeches Easter craft

Circles
Prep for VCC imovie speeches Easter craft class website

Diamonds
Prep for VCC imovie speeches Easter craft class website

Stars
Prep for VCC imovie speeches Easter craft class website

Friday

Class website

class website

Activities

Literacy Groups

Term 1
Squares

Week
Triangles

Springboard Comprehension focus:

Circles Read Springboards Diamonds Read Springboards Stars Read Springboards

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Read Springboards Vocab Ipad Vocab

Read Springboards Ipad Vocab Vocab

Activities