The Flower by John Light Guided Reading

This is for using the strategy for whole class guided reading.

This is to go alongside the book The Flower by John Light.

The book has a list of vocabulary with an attached powerpoint; a section retell; guided reading questions and answers and two extension activities.

It was aimed at my higher Year 2 children.

It covers the following National Curriculum learning objectives:

-develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
-becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
-drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
-making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
-answering and asking questions
-predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
-using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read
-checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context