Interview English Reading Activity for Y1/2 Class

This is an English Reading lesson activity that was used for a Year 1 / 2 class for an ECT interview. The activity was based on the book Dragon Post and was a prediction lesson. This lesson is aimed at around 30 minutes. The book Dragon Post will be needed for this lesson.

Within this pack there is:

• A lesson plan for the lesson activity with assessment for learning opportunities and opportunities for progression with higher ability children. The lesson plan highlights previous knowledge (year 2 children using prediction in year 1), National Curriculum links, Learning objective, Success criteria, introduction, direct teaching, independent task, plenary and assessment points. The lesson plan is fully editable.
• A learning objective with success criteria suitable for a mixed year 1 / 2 class due to link to the National Curriculum.
• A “word bucket” for children to access spellings with phonics set 2 and 3 sounds identified. The word bucket is fully editable.
• A powerpoint used in the lesson. The slides include: a slide to show the learning objective and success criteria, a prediction slide which shows question prompts after reading part of the story, a slide which has stem sentences to help children with writing their prediction, an assessment for learning opportunity slide to add the subordinating conjunction because into their sentences.