Blog by Tag: reading
Reading Silly Questions
These two busy Ducklings have been reading silly questions and deciding if the answer would be Yes or No. They have used their knowledge of tricky words and the different phonemes or sounds that they know to help them read independently.
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Applying our phonics skills
The Ducklings are becoming more confident to apply their knowledge of phonics and tricky words to help them read sentences independently.
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The ow phoneme
Josh loves spending time each day after phonics looking for the new phoneme in his lovely books at home. Today he found lots of words with ow in inside The Smartest Giant in Town! Josh typed up the ow words on his computer! Great work Josh!
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Blending to read
The Ducklings are growing in confidence to blend sounds together to read words.
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reading reading buddies phonics
Reading captions
The Ducklings have been showing off their phonics skills this week by applying their knowledge of the sounds that they know to read simple captions independently! Super star readers!
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Busy learning at home
Look how creative the Ducklings are at learning their tricky words, making patterns and naming shapes!
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maths reading patterns phonics Shapes
Super star reader!
Look at one of our amazing Ducklings practising their blending and reading words and sentences at home! Fanatstic work.
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Retelling the No-Bot story
Today we have read No-Bot The Robot With No Bottom! Afterwards the children have done lots of different activities, such as writing lost posters, making story maps, making junk model robots and writing their own stories. Joshua has retold the story and used his small world characters to act it…
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reading stories Speaking and Listening
Finding information
The Ducklings enjoy reading a range of books, of their own choosing, for pleasure, but also as sources of information to help them find out more about a particular subject. Here the Ducklings are reading in the home corner to help them find out more about different families and how some of…
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reading Understanding the World Diwali
The Little Red Hen
The Ducklings have loved reading the traditional tale of The Little Red Hen and now know it so well that they love acting it out and retelling it using the repetitive story language.
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reading traditional tales Speaking and Listening
Guided Reading
In guided reading we have enjoyed reading and retelling the story of the Little Red Hen.
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reading traditional tales Speaking and Listening
Sharing stories
The Ducklings throughly enjoyed reading The Little Red Hen story. They also brought in their own versions from home and enjoyed telling each other the different stories as well as talking about the similarities and differences between them.
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