Year 4 - Guided Reading - The iron Giant

Year 4 - Guided Reading - The iron Giant

This three week guided reading plan focuses on The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes. 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 Iron Giant
Children to have the front cover of the text and first page and complete table

What techniques can you see?
Is the Iron Man going to be a villain or a hero? What tells you this?
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
Making predictions based on information stated and implied
Possible Questions:

How has the robot been described? What is he like? How do you feel about him?
What does the front cover tell us? How is this different from the writing?
What do you think will happen?
Activity:
Children to have a copy of this page and to highlight/text mark the engaging features. Children put in negative/positive ideas in table and then write prediction.
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?