Guided Reading - The Lighthouse

Guided Reading - The Lighthouse

This week long guided reading plan focuses on The Lighthouse short story. 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 Lighthouse

Book introduce
Show ch the front cover on the IWB. What do you think the book will be about? Discuss with tables. Get feedback. What type of book do you think it is? Why do you think this? Show ch the blurb and read together. Does this change what you think the book might be about?
Share LO: I am learning to draw inferences.
Strategy check
Discuss with class what strategies we could use if we were stuck on a word, what they could do when they are reading etc.
Independent reading
Children to read the extract by them selves.
Response to text
Remind ch of the LO. On the IWB have a range of questions about the text. Explain to them what the word inference means and how we answer these types of questions. Things you infer from the text, it about what you think its saying using your reasoning rather than sing concrete evidence. Read between the lines and make a well informed guess. Using Discuss the answers as a class once they have disussed with partner.
What do you think Kittiwakes, Terns and Guillemots are? Why?
What does “Thy way is in the sea, and my path in the great waters” Mean?
What do we think the men were? Why?
What phrase makes you think that the boy is scared?
Recap what had happened in the extract yesterday and re read.
I am learning to draw inferences about a character.
Activity:
Ch to use what they have read and write a paragraph describing what the men/creatures look like.
Spelling Focus: [SHORT ACTIVITY]
Comprehension (differentiated):
Ch to read and answer the questions based on the story they have read so far. Ch to mark their answers after.
Free reading – any text
Free writing – writing a new introduction to the Iron Man.
Challenge: Can they include any of the spelling words we have focused on?