KS2 River Stories - Whole Class Guided Reading - age 7+

Get your class excited about their rivers topic using books about rivers.

4 whole class reading comprehension lessons based on the chapters about the Nile and the Yangtze from ‘River Stories’ by Timothy Knapman.

Whole class reading, paired reading, collecting/presenting information in a table, opportunity for children to create their own retrieval questions about a different river.

Reading Skills foci: retrieval, feature’splore (exploring the features/organisation of a text)

32-page dyslexia-friendly PowerPoint, 6 x PDF downloadable activities.

Extract not included.

Recommended for age 7+

For those teaching rivers as a topic, River Stories is a a must read with your class. Each glorious river-length page brings five rivers from around the world to life by telling all the stories, histories, geography, myths and legends associated with each.

It’s the perfect opportunity for classes to look at how a text’s structure contributes to meaning and gives the children lots of opportunities to practise retrieval. They can even enjoy making up their own retrieval question cards based on a river of their choice.