Y3/4 Guided Reading Character Description - 5 Lessons

This 5 session guided reading unit is all about character descriptions. The included text is based on the character of a fairy, including descriptive vocabulary.

Great to study across a week or half term, these sessions are based around reading the text together as a whole class (or group) and predicting, clarifying vocabulary and exploring the text.

Children will build up a knowledge of the features and language used in a character description. Also included is a Character Description Toolkit, full of features of character descriptions that they can use to create their own character description at the end of the unit.

Learning objectives:

1. To identify and explain the features of a character description.
2. To infer and deduce information from a character description.
3. To infer and deduce information from a character description.
4. To understand how the author uses language and punctuation to create suspense and describe a character.
5. To understand and respond to a descriptive text about a mythical creature.

Y3 Y4 reciprocal reading LKS2 ks2 outstanding ofsted