Year 5/6/7 - Skellig - Whole Term Reading Planning - Complete Lessons

This product contains a whole term’s worth of Reading lessons based on the book Skellig by David Almond.

The planning includes the following:

• Introductory Tasks (including Morning Maths Slides upon entry to class)
  4 - 8 questions every morning based on the KS2 Arithmetic SATS Paper. Great welcoming routine for a class to independently interact with as they enter the room. Some of the answers to these are included in following slides.

• Fluency Speed Read Slides (improving children’s speed and fluency of reading).
  A great strategy to improve children’s reading speed, fluency and expression. Texts are seperate to the Skellig reading and include a variety of different writing styles to expose children to a various texts (e.g. poems, narratives, reports etc).

• Vocabulary Work
  Before the actual reading of the text for each lesson, specific words or phrases have been identified in the text and highlighted with definitions so that children are aware of their meaning / context before coming across them in the Skellig book. Conversations, images and challenges are also included in these vocabulary slides.

• Reading Time
  Slides are included which explain the amount of text that needs to be read during each individual lesson. This is usually 1 or 2 chapters worth of reading and can be done by the teacher themselves, the children, group of children, or a mixture of everyone.

• Supported annotation documents.
  An addition within this planning, from week 5 onwards, there are differentiated questions included which can be utilised to support children in their retrieval skills. Some of these include Communicate in Print (text including pictures to support understanding), and others included annotation documents which have been created to further encourage children to annotate their texts and pull ideas from the book itself to support their ideas and answers.

• Friday Comprehension
  Every Friday of the week, comprehension texts have been chosen for the children to use and practice the skills they have learnt throughout that week.

All questionings within this document are focussed on the VIPERS notion of reading (V ocabulary I nference P rediction E xplanation R etrieval S ummarise).

Powerpoint slides have been made for each learning week, which are fully animated for teacher’s ease of use. Further, all slides, documents and resources are completely editable and adaptable to suit the needs of the classroom.