Year 4 - Guided Reading - It was a dark and stormy night

Year 4 - Guided Reading - It was a dark and stormy night
This is a two week plan for guided reading based around Allan Ahlberg’s It was a dark and stormy night.

The plan suggests activities for each day including follow up tasks and comprehensions.

Example plan:

Text: It Was A Dark and Stormy Night by Allan Ahlberg
Children to have the front cover of the text and complete inference grid:
-What can I see?
-What might happen?
-What questions do I have?
Children to read chapter 1, 2 and 3 text in pairs.
Content Domain:
Identifying, discussing and collecting effective words and phrases which capture the reader’s interest and imagination e.g. metaphors, similes
Possible Questions:

Who was Antonio? What happened to him?
What did they want Antonio to do?
Who took over the story?
Follow Up Tasks:
Activity:
Give ch a selection of words from the story that read yesterday. Ch to have a go with a partner to define what the words mean, once they have done that they check them with a dictionary.

Torrents
brigands
sodden
jaws
lashing

Spelling Focus: [SHORT ACTIVITY]

Prefix: Inter and Super
inter– means ‘between’ or ‘among’.
super– means ‘above’.
Spelling words: interact, intercity, international, interrelated, supermarket, superman, superstar

Comprehension (differentiated):
Ch to read the firework poem and answer differentiated questions about it.

Free reading – any text
Free writing – any writing about the text (ideas include description of the robot/bluebird, book review, own story of where the bird came from/journey)
Challenge: Can they include any of the spelling words we have focused on?