1. Children’s literature, and text analysis

2. To consider a range of children’s authors and poets To better understand the role of picture books To know a range of strategies for exploring and encouraging response to fiction and poetry To choose and use materials to reflect linguistic and cultural diversity Aims

3. Story time

4. Write down the names of 5 children’s authors For what age range/s do those authors write? Write down 3 picture books that you remember from your childhood. What made them memorable? Test

5. A universal view Dolly Parton and the Imagination Library immediate ageless and timeless A picture paints a thousand words

6. School perspective immediate focus across whole primary age range spur for: speaking and listening, drama supporting early reading development speaking into writing developing and extending writing embedded PHSE A picture paints a thousand words

7. Reading comprehension (both listening and reading). It is essential that teaching focuses on developing pupils’ competence in both dimensions; different kinds of teaching are needed for each. Good comprehension draws from linguistic knowledge (in particular of vocabulary and grammar) and on knowledge of the world. Comprehension skills develop through pupils’ experience of high-quality discussion with the teacher, as well as from reading and discussing a range of stories, poems and non-fiction.

8. All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop their knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, and to gain knowledge across the curriculum. Reading widely and often increases pupils’ vocabulary because they encounter words they would rarely hear or use in everyday speech. Reading also feeds pupils’ imagination and opens up a treasure-house of wonder and joy for curious young minds.

9. To be able to choose and use materials to reflect linguistic and cultural diversity To be aware of a range of strategies for exploring and encouraging response to fiction and poetry

10. Enjoy poetry be a role model by : spouting poetry reading poems writing poetry  rhythm  discuss words – shape, flavour  mood Poetry

11. The importance of reading children’s literature regularly throughout the PGCE. Post a first recommendation on Blackboard. Always have a book ‘on the go’. Progress with text analysis directed task and the implications subject knowledge development Teachers as readers