Y3 / Y4 The Abominables opening - Story mapping example and WAGOLL adapted story introduction

Y3 / Y4 The Abominables guided reading pack (3 weeks)

Y3 / Y4 The Abominables (by Eva Ibbotson) whole class guided reading pack. 3 weeks worth of 3 lessons including: word work, differentiated retrieval and inference questions (in 3 story sections), a differentiated sequencing activity, adapted story map example, adapted story opening WAGOLL. Required text extract is available for free at LoveReading. **Curriculum coverage Reading** Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by: - listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction - reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes - using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read - increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books - discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination Understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by: - checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context - asking questions to improve their understanding of a text - drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence - predicting what might happen from details stated and implied - using the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by: - extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although