Guided Reading Plans for Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Friend or For’ separated into chapters. Questions are linked to National Curriculum and include areas of authorial intent, inference and deduction, exploring vocabulary and making predictions.

Model text - example of persuasive letter writing from Cinderella to her step-mother. Perfect for using alongside Talk for Writing or just as an example of the key phrases and structure of a persuasive letter.

Guided Reading resources for ‘The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket’ by John Boyne. Questions for each chapter linked to National Curriculum areas and linked to SATs-style questioning. Suggestions for follow-up activities included within plans. Additional Reading Comprehension tasks also attached. Questions targeted at developing skills in explaining the meaning of words in context, making predictions, developing inference and deduction skills, summarising and considering authorial intent.