A Monster Calls - Guided Reading (Year 6)

15 lessons (5 weeks) of Guided Reading material utilising the novel ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness.

The pack includes 5 sets of skill based comprehension questions that test students on their retrieval, inference and deduction skills over the course of the unit. Secondly the pack contains a guided, lesson by lesson, teacher question and record sheet with question prompts, answers and areas to note progress in the children.

The lessons are split into three per week:

1. The first is based on reading a section of the novel with guided teacher questions to prompt discussion along the way.
2. The second lesson is a focused practice whereby children are given questions similar to those they would receive in their comprehension work. The children can work as a group to decipher what the questions mean and how to solve them. In my experience, this can be teacher-led initially until the children get the hang of it.
3. Finally, the third lesson is an independent lesson for the children. They are given 6/7 comprehension questions from the next section of reading that they would not have seen previously and utilise the skills that they have been practicing previously in the week.