To PEE or not to PEE, that is the question
I share my thoughts about the PEE acronym and its usefulness (or not) for answering extended comprehension questions in Key Stage 2.
Focus on comprehension: retrieval
Retrieval is a key reading skill whether you’re teaching comprehension through Guided, Close or Whole Class Reading. In this short article we share some quick and easy techniques to help your class retrieve key information from texts. All of the suggestions here are lo-fi and designed to save you time whilst have a clear focus on retrieving and recording key information from texts.
RIP Assessment Focuses: Hello Content Domains
A hugely popular article signposting the suite of Primary English resources to support teaching and learning in reading. Planners, questions and prompts to support all aspects of the Content Domain for reading in KS1 and KS2.
What’s the big idea? Identifying themes in texts
In this article, I take a brief look at supporting children to identify themes in texts.
The National Curriculum asks that children in Year 5 and Year 6 identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing. But what are themes?Themes are not the plot and they are not the genre. Instead, themes are the underlying messages that exist beneath the words written on the page. They are the big ideas that the author is trying to convey to the reader.
Any Questions? Consideration of the Reading Content Domain
A short article introducing our hugely popular KS2 question prompts for the Reading Content Domains. A must-read article for teachers looking to develop questioning to meet the requirements of the KS2 SATs.