Lights on Cotton Rock : Week 1: 5 lessons

Hopes and dreams unit.

5 lessons based on the book by David Litchfield - Lights on Cotton Rock
58 slides in total

Looking at Heather (the main character) and her hopes and dreams to be visited by aliens and travel to space.

Week 1 includes:
Lesson 1: to infer clues from a front cover
Lesson 2: to be able to predict a story by reading the back cover
Lesson 3: to gather exciting and descriptive vocabulary to use in expanded noun sentences
Lesson 4: to use evidence from the text to answer questions
Lesson 5: to write sentences that are dictated (this lesson also includes handwriting)

Each lesson includes their resources. These lessons are made for a Year 3 class, however, they could be used for Year 2 or Year 4 too.

These lessons would follow nicely on from The Book of Hopes lessons at the start of the new year, these are also available via

**It says Week 2, however, it is week 1 on Lights on Cotton Rock:

Hopes and dreams unit:
Week 1: The Book of Hopes
**Week 2: Lights on Cotton Rock Week 1 ** (this resource)
Week 3: Lights on Cotton Rock continued and instruction writing to make a dream catcher