Francis Lit Shed Guided Reading lesson Year 5 Year 6

Lesson based on Francis video (Literacy Shed) which I used as an observation lesson
Breakdown:

Part 1
Francis film available on YT and Lit shed
Chn to go through the following structure, working through Francis scene by scene and to work in pairs to label their worksheets by critically looking at the clip from the perspective of a film maker thinking of producing a similar film
i.e. What makes the scenes effective? How is mood and atmosphere created? How does the film maker use light? How is sound used to convey mood?

Part One -Setting the scene
• Describe the woods (use your senses)
• Where there any signs that something was not right?
• What could she be feeling whilst she was walking through?
• Where was she heading too?
Part Two- Launch of the boat
• Describe the lake
• What did it look like?
• What was the atmosphere like at this point? (peaceful, tranquil)
• Describe the taking off of the boat?
• Describe when she found a spot? What did she do?
Part Three-Build up
• Describe the first knock on the boat?
• What were her initial feelings at this point?
• Did she feel her imagination was just running wild?
• Any signs of disbelief?
Part Four-Continuing knocking
• Describe her hearing more knocks?
• What was she now feeling? (panic)
Part Five (final few lines)
• End with a final few lines explaining the journal and what was written at the end.
• ‘I DID KNOCK’.

Part 2
Chn to organise Francis transcript into order to look at sequencing of the storyline
Chn to match vocabulary given on IWB to appropriate part of the story and label their notes page with the vocabulary
Chn should justify with their talk partners why they have selected certain adjectives

Plenary
Chn to discuss their vocabulary choices as a class and be able to justify them in relation to the mood and atmosphere of the scene.