Unit of Guided Reading based around The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars

This is a five week unit of work for Guided Reading sessions. The whole unit is based around foxes to link in with the book we were reading in class, called The Midnight Fox. The first week is based around songs and poems, week two is based on a non-fiction animal text, then week three is a fox film, and finally weeks four and five are based on the fiction book itself.

The resources include 5 weekly plans showing what each group in the class is doing; a set of 3 questions for the teacher to discuss with their group: a looking (retrieval), clue (inference) and thinking question (general personal response to the text); and various independent activites for non-teacher led groups, such as clarifying, predicting, summarising and visualising.