Whole Class Guided Reading - Hercules, Wolf Brother, The Wolves of Currumpaw

This year we launched Whole Class Guided Reading in Year 6 and I spent a lot of time replanning and creating resources! There are tweaks I’d like to make next year to these lessons, but if you’re like me and starting to think ahead (so that you don’t have to spend your whole summer planning), you may find this a useful starting point.

Our Guided Reading lessons are discrete, they often preteach what we will be looking at in English, happen every day and are typically 30 minutes long. However, you’ll quickly notice that some lessons could last a lot longer! I learnt a lot in the first few weeks planning Whole Class Reading.

**The resources feature Mrs P’s RIC starters. Her blog and resources have been a great help this year and I highly recommend you check her out if you haven’t already. **

Here you can find the first 3 weeks (Term 1) of my planning in both flipcharts and powerpoints:
Week 1 = Hercules - Zero to Hero (thank you Mr Booth)
Week 2 = Wolf Brother
Week 3 = The Wolves of Currumpaw
We begin the year by studying North America - hence starting with Wolf Brother and Currumpaw.

I plan on sharing more over the summer, but it takes time to copy and paste flipcharts into powerpoint.