Whole Class Reading - 'The Boy at the Back of the Class' - Year 4, 5, 6 - Planning

Seven ‘Whole Class Reading’ (or could be used for Guided Reading) lessons and activities linked to the book, ‘Boy at the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Rauf. These plans could be used for either Year 4, 5 or 6.

Each lesson includes:

7 x PowerPoint Lesson Plans (this includes a Learning Objective linked to a specific reading skill, warm-up, questions linked to the text (with page numbers, quotes or snipped extracts, examples of model answers and a task for the lesson) and a teaching input which leads to the main task activity (which is differentiated). Each lesson requires some reading of the text before the lesson - this is specified on the first slide which chapters will need to be read.
7 x Main Task for each lesson. This includes questions based on a ‘bronze, silver and gold’ differentiation by challenge and choice.

Lessons provide children with a range of reading skill opportunities:

• Retrieval
• Inference
• Summarising
• Language for effect
• Non-fiction based on the text (linked to refugees)

Within lessons, a range of model answers are given to be used as critical thinking activities for children to ensure they use ‘inference + evidence = effective answer’.

My children in Year 5 absolutely loved this book and it links so fittingly to what is going on in the world at the moment. We completed one session per week, which took us to half term.