Reading Library Lesson Tasks Scheme - Literacy Skills - Form Time - Catch Up Booster Intervention

This resource contains 5 individual full lessons for use in a library lesson or reading lesson. These could also easily be split into 10 sessions for form time sessions or for lessons which contain half reading, half skills focus. They could also be used for booster reading session, catch up or intervention sessions.

The powerpoint also contains 12 reading starters/library lessons tasks and 5 spelling tests for homework.

The 5-10 sessions include coverage of the following:

1. Why reading is important and the journeys reading can take us on.
2. The complexities of English, facts about the English language and how it can be confusing and homophones
3. Skimming skills including an extract from Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter
4. Scanning and retrieval skills including a non-fiction extract and an extract from The Hunger Games.

This is then followed by the 12 reading/library activities/starters which can be used in lessons. For example:

'Reading Task

What is an apostrophe?
Why do we use apostrophes?
(2 reasons- Can you give examples?)
Look at the apostrophes in a section of your text. Write down each word which has an apostrophe, and explain why it is there.’

These cover the following:

• apostrophes
• nouns
• dictionary use
• inference from reading book characters
• adjectives/antonyms/synonyms
• simile/personification/metaphor etc.
• first person use
• character problems
• cartoon strips for comprehension
• title analysis
• t-shirt for your main character task
• new front cover task