Reading - Y4 Comprehension pack - Children's Classics

This pack is a reading comprehension pack based on the Year 4 reading objectives.
It is aimed to provide some contextual understanding of children’s classics and the specific vocabulary that might arise as children explore children’s classics. In turn, this should equip children with the necessary knowledge when answering comprehension questions.
There is a focus on retrieval and it touches on VIPER style questions.
Each session has a retrieval activity.
There are 10 lessons covered in this pack. Each lesson is designed to be completed within 30 minutes.

Objectives covered from the NC:
To re-read these books with pace, volume and expression.
Decide which sections of text to read more carefully to fulfil a particular purpose, e.g. to summarise a text.
To discuss and compare texts from a wide variety of genres and writers.
To sequence the main events within a chapter and across a book.
To identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise these.
Summarise in writing the main points from a paragraph using a wider range of prompts.
Discuss how characters’ feelings, behaviour and relationships change over a text.

The theme for this pack:
Children’s classics
Identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these.

What is covered in this pack?
Book: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Book: A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Book: The Complete Alice by Lewis Carroll