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Visualizing ‘It Was A Dark And Stormy Night’ by Allan Ahlberg
We are working on comprehension strategies in reading, following the ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’ programme. We spent the first six weeks of the school term predicting what was going to happen...
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Visualizing scenes from ‘The Hodgeheg’ by Dick King Smith
We are following the programme in comprehension: ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’. We are learning comprehension strategies. As a whole-school, we concentrated on ‘prediction’ in September and...
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Letter after the Parent Teacher Meetings
Dear Parents, As the Parent Teacher Meetings draw to a close I thought it would be useful to ‘recap’ on what was said at them. At the PT Meetings you saw our system of record keeping in the school....
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Visualizing ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’
We visualized what happens in the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ Here is a detail from Shauna’s visualization: Here is JC’s very detailed visualization: Double click on JC’s picture to see the...
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A Visualization based on ‘Winter Song’ by by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid...
Today we listened to a beautiful song: ‘Winter Song’ by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson This is what Matthew drew. ‘Winter Song’ was familiar to many of the students because it is currently...
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Comprehension: Visualization + Making Connections – Summer Poems: ‘Summer...
Photo Credit: swirlingthoughts via Compfight Summer Morning by Rachel Field I saw dawn creep across the sky, And all the gulls go flying by. Photo Credit: Lali Masriera via Compfight I saw the sea...
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Comprehension; Detective Work; Inference and Prediction (1st/2nd Class...
Photo Credit: Jessica Lucia via Compfight Comprehension doesn’t sound like fun, but it is. It is like being a detective. Inferring doesn’t sound like fun either. But try this game from Phil Tulga.com...
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In our school there is a Whole School Approach to learning comprehension using the strategies from Martin Gleeson’s ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’. E = We Expose , T= We Teach, M = We...
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