Kensuke's Kingdom - Full Reading Planning (6 Week's Worth / Daily) - UKS2

A full 6 week’s worth of reading planning based on Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom.

Within this planning is the following documents:

Daily Powerpoint Slides (with animations)
Maths Morning Starters
All resources and worksheets for every lesson included
Differentiated Sheets for Lower Ability Children
Annotations sheets to support children’s ability to retrieve information from the text
2 Fluency Reading Texts per week to improve children’s reading speed and control / intonation
BONUS
Two Christmas Comprehension Activities based on Christmas Adverts!

This planning has been created by an experienced Year 6 Teacher in the UK purposely for a Year 6 classroom, hence the inclusion of some ex SAT’s questions within the morning starter slides. Though, this planning can be easily adapted to suit the needs of any Year 5 or Year 6 class.

Powerpoint Slides Include the following:

*Morning Starter slides (Maths focus, some weeks also contain answers to these questions on following slide)

Fluency Reading Slide (specific Vocabulary words have been pulled from the text into the slides to be discussed and shared with the class before children read). Children have 1 minute to read as much of the fluency text as possible with as much eloquence and clarity as they can

Kensuke’s Kingdom Vocabulary Words (similarly to Fluency Vocab, words / phrases have been taken from that day’s reading section and placed into a slide. Teachers can discuss this vocabulary (pictures included in slides for understanding) so children have experienced that vocab before coming across it in the text

*Modelled Questions (annotation) Slide. Teachers can use the I, We, You strategy to model how different comprehension questions can be answered. Using the annotations worksheet (included until Week 6 of this planning), to help children replicate the skills needed to retrieve information for their answer.

*A set of independent questions for the children to answer themselves, replicating what they have learnt from the modelling section of the lesson.

*Friday’s lessons come away from the Kensuke’s Kingdom text and the class are set a compreh

As stated above, these lesson plans have been created for a Year 6 classroom and have produced fantastic results in developing children’s phonetic reading ability, speed of reading, comprehension of reading and their ability to answer a wide variety of questions based on what they have read.

Further, these slides will also inform the teacher exactly how much of the Kensuke’s Kingdom book should be read each day (this is shown either on the vocabulary slides or during the Modelling slides).

All documents and completely editable and adaptable to suit the needs of the teacher and their class, and is being shared on TES to hopefully ease the workload of some fantastic teachers across the UK!

Enjoy!

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