Year 4 - Guided Reading - The Robot and the Bluebird.

Year 4 - Guided Reading - The Robot and the Bluebird.

This two week guided reading plan focuses on The Robot and the Bluebird by David Lucas. 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 Robot and the bluebird
Children to have the front cover of the text and complete inference grid:
-What can I see?
-What might happen?
-What questions do I have?
Children to read the text in pairs.
Content Domain:
Identifying, discussing and collecting effective words and phrases which capture the reader’s interest and imagination e.g. metaphors, similes
Possible Questions:

How has the robot been described? What is he like? How do you feel about him?
Which page has the most engaging language? (p19/20) Which words stand out? How do they make you feel? Why? What features has the author used?
Activity:
Children to have a copy of this page and to highlight/text mark the engaging features.
Follow Up Tasks:
-Show page as the seasons change (7/8).
Questions:
What words have already been used to describe him? What words do we like? How does it make us feel? Can we capture the reader’s interest anymore on this page? What language features could we use?

Activity:
Children to work in pairs to come up with different language features to describe the robot that will engage the reader more. (adverbial phrase/expanded noun phrase/ compound sentence/complex sentence/simile/metaphor)
Spelling Focus: [SHORT ACTIVITY]

Words ending in (k sound) –que

Can you think of any words that end in a –k sound? -ck -k -ke
Examples: focus on: unique, antique. Other words: like, leek, meek, week, weak, cake, bake etc
Comprehension (differentiated):

Based on finding and collecting adjective, metaphors, similes and explaining why the author has used the different phrases.

Free reading – any text
Free writing – any writing about the text (ideas include description of the robot/bluebird, book review, own story of where the bird came from/journey)
Challenge: Can they include any of the spelling words we have focused on?