Last week our class tried something new in reading for this term. We took our chairs outside and books from our class library and played ‘musical chairs reading’. We placed our chairs in a large circle and Miss Sporn put different books onto the chairs and then we played some music. When the music stopped we needed to read the book or books on the chair.

This is a great way to try different books – fiction, non fiction, picture books, joke books, novels – just to name a few. As the author Jackie French told us during her visit to our school a few weeks ago – we should ‘taste’ lots of different books to see which ones we like and read, read, read.

We needed to remember the 3 different ways to read the book-

• read the words
• look at the pictures
• retell the story to someone else.

We read for around 1/2 an hour and everyone really enjoyed the books they read. One of the main comments in our feedback chat was “I’ve never read some of those books before and I really liked them. I’m going to try to find more in the Library”.

Try musical chairs reading – we loved it and can’t wait to play it again!