Guided Reading lesson - The Boy In The Tower

This PowerPoint is a Week 3 Year 5 reading unit based on The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. It develops a range of reading skills including inference, vocabulary in context, prediction, author’s choice of language, and synonyms through extracts from Chapters 5 and 6. Pupils explore Ade’s worries about his mum, the growing mystery of the strange plants (Bluchers), and how the author creates tension and emotion in the story.

The lessons include vocabulary activities, retrieval and comprehension questions, discussion tasks, prediction exercises, and model answers to help children justify their ideas using evidence from the text.