Reading Practice
Within our Guided Reading sessions this week, we have been encouraging the children to share strategies for answering reading comprehension questions...
At the beginning of the week, the children were working with their talk partner to discuss how to answer the questions from a previous paper. Rather than just tell them the answer, each pair was asked to discuss how they approached each question and where to look for the correct response.
At the end of the week, the children sat the paper before we went through the answers on Friday – referencing the mark scheme, so the children could see the sort of guidance that the adults marking the paper would be given.
The main purpose of this was to help prepare the children for the types of questions they will face in a few weeks and equip them with the best methods for approaching these types of test papers.