This is a thinking routine for introducing ‘The Highway Rat’. It guides children through the front cover of the book through three parts; I see, I think, I wonder. Children have to write down what they see ( use adjective, noun), what they think might be happening, and then if they have any questions about the text. Ie is The Highway Rat going to be a nice character? Focus on the skill of predicting.

This lesson looks at the first page of the Highway Rat. The SMART presentation guides children through the text very slowly, looking and identifying tricky words and passages. There are activities for children to complete at the table which include finding tricky words, reading with expression and matching tricky words to the correct image. There is a focus on new vocab and reading with fluency. All questions and instructions for the teacher are on the SMART> Also included are two activities for SEN children which are sentence ordering and initial sound/picture matching.

This lesson continues with the story ‘The Highway Rat’ from the part where he meets the rabbit. The children are guided through the story looking at tricky/new vocab from the text with visual pictures to explain their meaning. Children are then given a short table activity where they have to think about the feelings of the rabbit and what the Highway Rat might say in a speech bubble. The children then return to the carpet where they continue to ‘close read’ the text. Children are encourage to read with the class teacher using lots of expression and fluency. There is a SEN task which is matching initial words to pictures from the story, and re-ordering a sentence. The smartboard is dyslexia and EAL friendly.

This is lesson 1 in a 10 part teaching sequence. It introduces formal/informal letters and the story ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. Children read the letters with expression and then have two activities. The first is identiying contractions in the white crayon letter (differentiated). Activity two is a sentence imitation activity where children use an ellipse. It also includes an SEN reading activity.

This Smart Note book introudces the book ‘The Twits’. It reminds children of other Roald Dahl books/characters they may have come across, then introduces the four main characters from the story ‘The Twits’. Children then read chapters 1-3. Then they design their own ‘Mr Twit beard’. The teacher, using the Smart Note Book, models writing a descritpive paragraph about the beard using sentence imitation from the book. All questions and tasks are on the Smart, no planning required!

This lesson starts with looking at the word types in each letter (contractions, nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper nouns and questions). Children have to scan a letter of their choice and add it to their word type chart. The second activitiy looks at Black Crayons letter, and uses sentence imitation ‘its not fair when’. Children then write sentences using this phrase and applying it to their own ideas.

This lesson looks at how each crayon (red, purple, grey, black, white and beige) are feeling. Then children practice writing with expression using exclamation marks and question marks.