Guided Reading - Fantastic Mr Fox 6 Week Plan

Guided Reading - Fantastic Mr Fox 6 Week Plan

This 6 week guided reading plan focuses on The Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. This plan follows group-based guiding reading approach meaning that each /table or group will complete a different activity on each day.

This package includes a detailed plan that lays out the schedule for the whole 6 weeks, alongside this there are follow-up tasks that relate to each weeks activities.

Example Plan:

Book Intro/ recap: (5 mins)
Introduce new text (chn should have listened to ebook Chapters 1 The Three Farmers and 2 Mr Fox prior to session)
Read chapters 1 and 2 to the children.
What were the farmers’ name?

Challenge pwb: Collect all the adjectives and adverbs that describe the farmers.
What kind of an impression do these words make together? Which farmer would you rather work for? Explain your answer.

Strategy Check: (5 mins)
Explain that when reading you will always encounter new words. What can we do if we find a word we don’t understand? Elicit use a dictionary. How will this help us when reading a text?

State LO. Explain that today we will learn to use a dictionary accurately to look up tricky words and find their definitions.
Independent reading: (5 mins)

Chn read extract/ area of focus.
Response to the text: (10 minutes)

Model process thinking aloud using alphabetical order to find a tricky word.
Read the meaning. Discuss. Put into a sentence.
Ask chn to put inot a sentence of their own (using context in book to help them)

In pairs, chn to repeat for another word.
Then independently when reading the text.

Feedback at end. Was it useful? How did it help you to understand the text? Do you like the text so far?

Introduce follow up task.