Year 4 - Guided Reading - The Twits - Roald Dahl

Year 4 - Guided Reading - The Twits - Roald Dahl

This four week guided reading plan focuses on The Twits by Roald Dahl. This plan follows a whole class guided reading approach meaning that all children are required to do the same activity on each day. The activities are differentiated.

The activities include a follow up task, comprehension, language activity and spelling focus.

Example Plan:
Text: The Twits by Roald Dahl
Children to read up to page 22 individually
Content Domain:
Ask question to improve understanding of text

Have questions on the board and in pairs children discuss the answers. As a class discuss the answers using the text to help.

What was Mrs Twit like when she was younger?
What did Mr Twit have in his bead?
What was the first trick Mrs Twit played on Mr Twit?
What did Mr Twit do to Mrs Twit’s walking stick?
How did Mr Twit explain to Mrs Twit what had happened to her walking stick?
Read pages 23-30. Discuss what happened in the story so far.
Activity:
Ch to think about the story so far. Ch to think about who do you think is the worse person; Mr or Mrs Twit? Ch to use evidence (quotes) and the tricks to support their answer.

Spelling Focus: [SHORT ACTIVITY]
The suffix –ly is added to an adjective to form an adverb. The rules already learnt still apply. The suffix –ly starts with a consonant letter, so it is added straight on to most root words
Exceptions:
(1) If the root word ends in –y with a consonant letter before it, the y is changed to i, but only if the root word has more than one syllable.
(2) If the root word ends with –le, the –le is changed to –ly.
(3) If the root word ends with –ic, –ally is added rather than just –ly, except in the word publicly.
The words truly, duly, wholly.

Comprehension (differentiated):
Ch to read and answer the questions based on the story they have read so far. Ch to mark their answers after.
Free reading – any text
Free writing – writing a new introduction to the Iron Man.
Challenge: Can they include any of the spelling words we have focused on?