Year 1 Reading: Identifying Text Structures & Making Inferences, Study Guides, Projects, Research of Poetry

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Activities for

Responding to

Reading in

Year One

Year 1 – Teacher’s notes

 The activities are not intended to be issued without prior discussion and preparation.

 The activities require a range of reading strategies to complete. Wherever possible, each activity has a reference to the Assessment Focus being developed. This will support teachers in covering a range of comprehension strategies and provide part of the ongoing evidence for assessing a child’s reading.

 Many can be used as part of a Guided Reading session and completed with teacher support.

 Some may be used more than once with different texts.

 You may decide not to use all of the sheets, and some children may have a different selection to others.

 You may choose sheets that support work done in the shared and guided session, or sheets appropriate to individual children’s personal reading.

 Some of the activities are designed to be completed over time – such as collecting aspects of language to use in the children’s own writing. These could be enlarged and displayed so that all the children could contribute.

 Some activities may need to be differentiated – they are on the Literacy web site and you may download them and alter them or use a sheet from a younger age group (www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/literacy).

 If you do not want to use photocopied sheets, these ideas are easily transferred to paper or exercise books. Or why not download the activity and work on screen.

 Most of the activities provide opportunities for Speaking and Listening about books and reading.

Year 1 Reading Objectives:

Strand Objectives

Identify the main events and characters in stories, and find specific information in simple texts. Use syntax and context when reading for meaning. Make predictions showing an understanding of ideas, events and characters. Recognise the main elements that shape different texts. Explore the effect of patterns of language and repeated words and phrases.

Select books for personal reading and give reasons for choices. Visualise and comment on events, characters and ideas, making imaginative links to their own experiences. Distinguish fiction and non-fiction texts and the different purposes for reading them.

In addition to a wide ranging read aloud programme, and children’s own choices, pupils in

Year 1 will read:

 Stories with familiar settings

 Stories from a range of cultures

 Stories with predictable and patterned

language

 Traditional and fairy tales and plays

 Stories about fantasy worlds

 Labels, lists and captions in texts and the

environment

 Instructional texts

 Recounts – fact

 Recounts – fiction

 Information texts

 Poetry – Using the senses

 Poetry – Pattern and Rhyme

 Poems on a theme

 Dictionaries

Books I have read this year

Fiction

Date Title Author

Fiction

Date Title Author

Draw a picture of a character from your book

What is your character’s name?

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Write three words that describe your character’s

appearance.

Draw a picture of a setting

from your book

Make a list of all the things you have drawn in your picture.

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Draw a picture of a setting from your book

Framework objectives:

Strand 7: Identify the main events and characters in stories, and find specific information in simple texts.

Strand 8: Visualise and comment on events, characters and ideas, making imaginative links to their own experiences.

Assessment focuses:

Reading AF2: Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text

Reading AF3: Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts

Make sure that the children are familiar with the term ‘setting’. Talk about the various settings in the children’s own lives and what they might expect to see there. Discuss the setting in the book and how it affects the story. The picture the children draw may reflect their own imagination as well as illustrations in the book.

Draw a picture of the main event in your book

Framework objectives:

Strand 7: Identify the main events and characters in stories, and find specific information in simple texts.

Strand 8: Visualise and comment on events, characters and ideas, making imaginative links to their own experiences.

Assessment focuses:

Reading AF2: Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text

Reading AF3: Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts

Discuss the story with the children, focusing on the sequence of events and what happened after each one. Help the children to identify the main event, what had led to it, and what happened afterwards. This discussion will sow the seeds of understanding cause and consequence in stories.

Talking About Books

 Choose a character from your book. Ask your friend to

choose one, too. Pretend to be the characters. Ask each

other questions about what happens to them.

 Tell your friend all about a character in your book.

 Tell your friend all about a setting in your book.

 Retell a story that you like to your friend.

 Talk to your friend about something that happened to you

that you have also read about in a book.

 Choose a book that you have read but your friend hasn’t.

Ask them to guess what it is about by looking at the cover

and the pictures. Are they right?

Talking About Books

Framework objectives:

Strand 8: Select books for personal reading and give reasons for choices.

Strand 8: Visualise and comment on events, characters and ideas, making imaginative links to their own experiences.

Assessment focuses:

Reading AF3: Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts

Suggested speaking and listening emphases

 Talk about personal experiences related to stories read.  Describe story settings and incidents.  In oral retellings, identify the main events of a story using some features of story language.  Identify and discuss characters, their behaviour and description.  Discuss book preferences and give reasons.  Recall and retell the main incident from a story and explain why it happened.  Retell stories, giving the main points in sequence.  Identify and discuss story themes.  Talk about themes and justify preferences in stories.  Prepare and retell a story emphasising the key events and using the features of story language.  Listen to stories read and told by other children.

Draw pictures to show the journey of a character in your book.

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A New Book

Title: ……………………………………………………………………………………………

Author: …………………………………………………………………………………………

Draw the picture on the cover.

Write some words about the book