The Jigsaw Puzzle Stage 7 More Owls

Focus: to recognise and use ph5 digraphs when reading

Begin to read with expression

To answer questions using the text

Introduce tricky words for book; Frisbee, soldiers

Read the first 3 pages together to encourage decoding skills and expression: Why couldn’t
Chip play with the Frisbee?

What was Mum’s suggestion?

What was the picture on the puzzle?

Continue to read independently. Teacher to support comprehension by asking questions about

story.

What were the family doing when the children arrived?

What did Edmund think the Frisbee was?

Why must the family hide?

How do you think they felt?

Where was the secret room?

How did Jane and Edmund’s father feel?

How did the soldiers know it was Edmund’s father’s sword?

Did the children do the right thing by not telling the soldiers where he was hiding?

What was Chip’s plan? Do you think it will work?

Why did the soldiers stop playing with the Frisbee?

What do you think happened to Edmund’s father at the end of the story?

11.3.13 The Jigsaw Puzzle Digraph Detective!

Can you find words that contain each of the digraphs below?

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