Cogheart - Year 6 Guided Reading Unit

A 21-lesson unit for Guided Reading aimed at a Year 6 class.

This unit follows a three lesson pattern a week - leaving opportunities to develop on skills such as retrieval, inference, cohesion and summary in other lessons.
The first lesson acts as a whole class read whereby you have the opportunity to hear and discuss the chapter with teachers leading questioning from the chapter.
The second lesson focuses on the previous lesson’s chapter. However, in this lesson the focus is on aiding children’s understanding of the chapter, developing discussion further and providing opportunity to model different styles of comprehension questions. The lesson starts with a timed read, a short retrieval challenge based on one page and then group/partner questions that are then shared and modelled.
The final lesson (lesson 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21) are independent lessons where the children apply what they have practiced on the previous lesson. This time they read the next chapter and then answer comprehension questions based on what they have read. The questions are a mixture of retrieval, inference, summary, author choice, word context.
Writing opportunities are frequent throughout this book, some have been noted at the end of the lesson on the Teacher Guide.
This book gripped my class and led to some detailed writing.

I have used this with my current Year 6 class, they have loved the book and it has led to some interesting writing pieces and outcomes, with some great discussion. Highly recommend the book as an English writing piece, alongside the Guided Reading.

Included:
Independent Comprehension Workbook containing a range of question types.
Teacher Guide for Whole Unit
PPTs for Whole Class discussion (Lessons 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 20)
Activity Sheet for Whole Class Discussion (Lessons 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 20)
Assessment Crib sheet for Independent Lesson
Writing opportunity template and further challenges at end of independent lesson.