A book of Bears Whole Class Reading Year 2

These detailed Smart Notebook slides have been created to run alongside the planning from The Literacy Tree. It is advisable to have this planning to fully understand the context of the slides. This whole class reading unit has 12 lessons and is based on the text A Book of Bears. It is created for a year 2 class but can easily be adapted for other year groups.

Children will learn all about the eight different bears of the world, their likes, their
homes and more. Who is the best climber and who is the fastest at catching fish?Each lesson begins with a focus - Retrieve, Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Sequence. New vocabulary is explicitly taught and is included on the slides at the start of each lesson. There are click and reveal parts to some of the slides so look carefully!

These slides are very detailed but it is advisable to have the planning to use alongside them. Children are expected to record their ideas in their reading response books. Resources are provided for each lesson. I have used the font Sassoon Primary Infant but this can easily be changed if you haven’t got that font installed on your laptop.