Workshops

Pupils should be taught to:

• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances , role play, improvisations and debates
• Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers

Pupils should be taught to:

Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:

• Becoming familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics.
• Discussing the sequence of events and how items of information are related.

Pupils should be taught to:

• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances , role play, improvisations and debates
• Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
• Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.

Pupils should be taught to:

• Understand what they read by:
• Drawing inferences such as inferring characters feelings thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
• Predicting what might happened from details stated and implied
• Recognise themes in what they read, such as triumph of good over evil or the use of magical devices in fairy stories and folk tales

Pupils should be encouraged to:

• Use drama approaches to understand how to perform plays and poems to support their understanding of the meaning

Pupils should be taught to:

• Draft and write narratives by creating settings, characters and plot.