Clockwork - 9 Whole Class Reading Lessons

A series of 9 ready-to-teach complete notebook lessons about the fascinating book Clockwork.

This resource contains 9 fully resourced lessons as well as all accompanying resources. My slides will guide you from start to finish through this engaging book! The slides are intended to be taught to the whole class using the increasingly popular whole class reading approach.

Each lesson usually takes the same format:
Starter/ opening task on whiteboards
Pre-teach vocabulary that will come up in the reading
read the book with the class - all page numbers provided (I like to use a mixture of Teacher reading, partner reading, choral reading, and echo reading)
A short input/ modelling before the task
Task slide - various activities including: retrieval, practising intonation, summarising, debates and themed comprehension questions

Note: To maintain variety, slides sometimes slightly differ from this format.

The series of lessons is appropriate for Year 4 to Year 6 children but can easily be adapted.

All lessons are linked to the English Reading National Curriculum and many focus on the content domains from the reading SATS papers. Many tasks in the lessons expose and teach children common vocabulary from the Reading SATS papers but in an engaging and friendly manner.

Learning objectives include: predicting, summarising, retrieving information, inference, finding evidence to justify an answer as well as reading fluently with expression and intonation.

Many of the tasks include differentiation. I use a green, yellow, red chilli system, where children start on either green or yellow and then can move on to the more challenging red chilli.

The children in my class loved practising their reading skills using Clockwork and my slides. I’m sure other children will also!