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Musical Chairs Reading

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Our class LOVES to read everyday and we use the Daily 5 reading menu to develop our reading skills. Today we tried a new activity! We did musical chairs reading – you play by the same rules to play musical chairs but wherever you sit down you read the books that are on that seat. This is a great opportunity to read different types of books – fiction and non fiction book, novels, short stories and picture fiction books. Lots of people added the books to their book boxes after reading them during our game. Everyone was really focussed on reading and we can’t wait to do this game again.

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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!

 

Musical Chairs Reading

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Last Friday we finished our wonderful week at school with a game of Reading Musical chairs. We made a circle with our classroom chairs and a mixture of books were placed on them. When the music started we needed to walk around the circle of chairs, when the music stopped we sat on the nearest chair and started reading the books on it.

This is a wonderful chance to read different types of books that we may not usually choose. The books on the chairs were:

  • picture fiction
  • non fiction (facts & information)
  • novels
  • books without words – you have to create your own story in your mind

At the end of our session we reflected upon it. We all agreed that it was a fun way to read books that we wouldn’t usually choose and when we went to the Resource Centre to borrow our Library books for the week many children chose some new types of books.

Here’s some photos of our reading session.