This is a year 5/6 lesson using chapter 29 of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skills of retrieval and explanation. Questions are differentiated by three levels - mild, spicy and hot, and ANSWERS are included. You just need a copy of the book. The lesson uses Activinspire.

This is a year 5/6 lesson using chapters 23-24 of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skills of retrieval. Questions are differentiated by three levels - mild, spicy and hot, and ANSWERS are included. You just need a copy of the book. The lesson uses Activinspire.

This is a year 5/6 lesson using chapter 17 of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skills of retrieval and explanation. Questions are differentiated by three levels - mild, spicy and hot, and ANSWERS are included. You just need a copy of the book. The lesson uses Activinspire.

This is a year 5/6 lesson using chapter 12 of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skills of retrieval and explanation. ANSWERS included. You just need a copy of the book. The lesson uses Activinspire.

This is a year 5/6 lesson using chapter 7 of The Highland Falcon Thief, working on the skill of RETRIEVAL. ANSWERS included. EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go. The lesson uses Activinspire.

Lessons focus on one to two skills maximum per lesson. I paired these lessons with some writing-based lessons and the children loved this book. You would need a copy of the book of photocopies of some pages. These reading lessons focus specifically on these pages: prologue, 17-26, 48-56, 56-63, 92-97, 188-193, 206-216. The lessons are all retrieval-based but one lesson also looks at inference.

This one-off whole class reading lesson was designed for a poetry unit that focused on decoding new vocabulary and using context clues. The children read adapted poem and decode the tricky vocabulary.

This whole class reading lesson was designed for a unit on Canada. The children read the extracts about Canadian animals and decode the tricky vocabulary.

This is a 1 week writing unit focusing on figurative language. I would say this is suitable for Year 6/5. From my experience, the children really enjoy this and produce some great pieces of writing!

These lessons have been planned so that children engage with The Boy Who Grew Dragons while learning about summary/retrieval/vocabulary skills. There is ALSO a lesson using the picture book ‘Tell Me a Dragon’ to kickstart your dragon unit. The lessons focus specifically on the prologue, chapter 1, chapter 4, chapter 8, chapter 15, chapter 19, chapter 21, and chapter 27, you will need to read the rest of the book outside of these lessons. Everything you need to teach these lessons is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes).

This is a year 3/4 whole-class reading lesson using David Litchfield’s picture book The Bear and the Piano All texts belong/created by David Litchfield no copyright infringement intended

This is a year 3/4 whole-class reading lesson using Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes: Little Red Riding Hood. The children discuss their existing knowledge of Little Red Riding Hood, read the new version, discuss, and then summarise the story. HAPS will be pushed to discuss the differences between different tales. My reading lessons focus on the explicit reaching of 1-2 reading skills from the VIPERS skill set, to allow children to build on their understanding of different reading strands. All texts belong/created by Roald Dahl, no copyright infringement intended

This lesson works on the skills of evaluation/explanation Everything you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). To be honest though, you only really need a copy of the book for the teacher reading to the class - most activities have quotes/texts included in the worksheets etc.

This lesson works on the skills of vocabulary/explanation. EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes). These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This lesson works on the skill of summary. EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson is included and good to go apart from an audiobook/copy of reading material (for copyright purposes).

This lesson works on the skills of vocabulary/explanation. children write an acrostic poem about Crowky (class or individual) children read chapters 39-40 of the Land of Roar children learn how to explain the effect of specific words children answer differentiated questions about specific vocabulary for Crowky These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This lesson works on the skill of retrieval but also allows the children to have some fun with their art skills. children look at some different illustrator styles children read chapters 37-38 of the Land of Roar children learn how to draw dragons (important!) using videos children retrieve key details from the chapter and draw an impression of the scene

This lesson works on the skills of vocabulary/explanation. children learn about shades of meaning and practise some quick but effective activities through a video children read chapters 35-36 of Land of Roar children learn how to explain the effect of specific words children answer differentiated questions about specific vocabulary from chapters 35-36 These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This lesson works on the skill of vocabulary. children learn what ‘vocabulary’ means and talk about unfamiliar vocabulary children learn about context clues, and try to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words children use the skill again, this time with words from the next chapters of Land of Roar children read chapters 32-34 and use context clues to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words if they need to. These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.

This lesson works on the skill of retrieval. children practise their skim/scan skills with where’s wally -style activities children read chapters 28-29 of Land of Roar children answer differentiated retrieval questions! These resources will help year 5/6 students get used to SATS-style questions.