Whole Class Guided Reading KS2- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

This lesson focuses on 3 NC objectives:

• Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions
• Check that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context
• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence

Pupils will learn the background and context of the tale and then read it as a class. A teacher’s version is attached which gives ideas of questions to pose throughout reading. Following this, pupils will answer a range of comprehension questions requiring them to infer, deduce, retrieve and evaluate.