Year 4 - Guided Reading - How To Train a Dragon

Year 4 - Guided Reading - How To Train a Dragon

This one week guided reading plan focuses on How To Train a Dragon by Cressida Cowell. This plan follows a whole class guided reading approach meaning that all children are required to do the same activity on each day. The activities are differentiated.

The activities include a follow up task, comprehension, language activity and spelling focus.

Example Plan:

Text: How to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell
Day 1:

Book introduce
Show ch the front cover on the IWB. What do you think the book will be about? Discuss with tables. Get feedback. What type of book do you think it is? Why do you think this? Show ch the blurb and read together. Does this change what you think the book might be about?
Share LO: I am learning to draw inferences from a piece of text.

Strategy check
Discuss with class what strategies we could use if we were stuck on a word, what they could do when they are reading etc.

Independent reading
Children to read the extract by them selves.

Response to text
Remind ch of the LO. On the IWB have a range of questions about the text. Explain to them what the word inference means and how we answer these types of questions. Discuss the answers as a class once they have disussed with partner.

Why do you think they don’t want Hiccup to be commanding the team?

Do you think they like Limpets?

Why do think Hiccup had been feeling sick?

How do you feel about the characters in the story?
Recap what had happened in the extract yesterday and re read.

Day 2:

I am learning to predict what is going to happen next.
Activity:
Ch to complete predict based on what they have read so far what might happen next in the story.

Day 3:

Spelling Focus: [SHORT ACTIVITY]
Words with the
sound spelt ei, eigh, or ey /eɪ/
Statutory: eight, eighth, reign

Other: vein, weigh, neighbour, they, obey

Day 4:
Comprehension (differentiated):
Ch to read and answer the questions based on the story they have read so far. Ch to mark their answers after.

Day 5:
Free reading – any text
Free writing – writing a new introduction to the Iron Man.
Challenge: Can they include any of the spelling words we have focused on?