Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 1

Date:
Book: FMD
Fluency LO: I can read age-appropriate books with confidence and fluency.
Reading Framework Reference: E1
Comprehension LO: LO: I can understand and explore the meaning of new words in context (Chapter 7)

Reading Framework Reference: E6

Teacher Modelling
. Page 97- What does the phrase ‘hasty sleep’ mean?

Pupils Have a Go on whiteboards

Page 97- Find a word that means travelling in a rolling motion.

Independent

Page 98- The equipment was… swarmed by a dozen pyrotechnicians’- What does the word swarmed tell you?-

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 Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 2
Date:
Book: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Fluency LO: I can read age-appropriate books with confidence and fluency.
Reading Framework Reference: E1
Comprehension LO: I can locate information directly from the text.
Reading Framework Reference: E6
Chapter 1 – pages 9 to
Modelling:
1. What was Michael’s mum like when dad told her about the boat?
2. Why did dad buy the boat?
Practise – pairs (whiteboards):
3. What did they have enough money to do?
4. What will mum be on the boat?
Practise – independently (post its)
5. What did Gran say about the family buying the boat?
6.

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 Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 3
Date:
Book: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Fluency LO: I can read age-appropriate books with confidence and fluency.
Reading Framework Reference:
Comprehension LO: I can summarise the main ideas in the text.
Reading Framework Reference:
Chapter 2
Summarise
-Underline the key events/points in the text.
-Think about the 5 w’s: who, what, why, where, when.
-Keep it short.
-Put it into your own words.
-Keep to the facts – do not put your opinion in.
Modelling:
1. Summarise what happened in chapter 1.
Practise – pairs (whiteboards):
2. How did Michael spend most of his time?
3. Summarise what Michael and his parents do on the boat.
Practise – independently (post its)
4. What school work did Michael do while he was on the boat?
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 Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 4
Date:
Book: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Fluency: Read with intonation and show and understanding
Reading Framework Reference: E2
Comprehension LO: I can work out meaning of new words in context.
Reading Framework Reference: E3
Word choice/meaning:
1) Read around the word in the sentence or even the paragraph.
2) Replace the word in the sentence with a synonym to see if it makes sense.
3) If it is comparing it to something – think about what qualities it has.
-DO NOT repeat the word or phrase they have used in the question to explain the answer.
Modelling:
What does trod mean?
Practise – pairs (whiteboards):
‘The impenetrable darkness…’ What does ‘impenetrable’ mean?
What is the synonym for clung?
Practise – independently (post its)
Find another word that means relieved

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 Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 5
Date: Book: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Fluency Read with intonation and show and understanding
Reading Framework Reference: E2
Comprehension LO: I can identify characters thoughts, feelings.
Reading Framework Reference: E3
Chapter 4 Page 50 to
LO: I can identify characters’ thoughts and feelings.
-Read around the information.
-Use prior knowledge of what you have read in the text.
-Look for clues in the text.
-Understand what the character might be thinking through their actions and speech
-Understand what the character might be feeling through their actions speech
-Use evidence in the text to back up your answer.
-Watch out for the number of marks in the question e.g. 2 marks = two bits of evidence, 3 marks = three bits of
evidence.
Modelling:
1. How do we know that Michael was in despair at the top of page 50?
Practise – pairs (whiteboards):
2. What word tells you that Stella was not worried?
3. (Page 53) Find evidence at the end of page 53 that tell you how Michael felt.
Practise – independently (post its)
4. How do you know Michael still has hope? (Page 54)
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 Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 6
Date: Book: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Fluency Read with intonation and show and understanding
Comprehension LO: I can provide justifications for my views.
From page 57
Success Criteria
What do I have to do?
1st key information I have to look for
2nd key information I have to look for
Find clues that will help form my view
Find more clues
How many reasons need to be given?
Read the question again and your answer – will it work?
Modelling:
1. Why was Michael racked with desperate thoughts? What evidence can you find to support your
answer?
Practise – pairs (whiteboards):
2. Why did Michael drink water from the rock pools? (page 57)
Practise – independently (post its)
3. Why couldn’t Stella and Michael not travel any further? Prove your answer (page 58)
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 Guided Reading CT Focus Group Green and Blue (HA) Week 7
Date:
Book: Kensuke’s Kingdom
Fluency
Reading Framework Reference:
Comprehension LO: I can understand and explore the meaning of new words in context.
Reading Framework Reference:
Chapter page 61
Modelling:
1. ‘…telltale trembling of leaves at the edge of the forest, or for a trail of footprints in the
stand.’
Looking at this sentence what could the meaning of telltale mean?
Practise – pairs (whiteboards):
2. Read the sentence and using the context what does the word beseeching mean?
Practise – independently (post its)
3. What does the word exhilarated mean?
Pupil Fluency LO Comprehension LO Next Step