Y3 Y4 Y5 Night before Christmas whole class guided reading - Word work, retrieval and inference

Ideal for teaching in school or as home learning during quarantine / lockdown.

Y3 Y4 Y5 Night before Christmas whole class guided reading - Word work, differentiated retrieval and inference questions.

12 unusual words to find in the text and match up with the definitions. (Definitions also include synonyms to support and build vocabulary).

Retrieval and inference questions each differentiated 3 ways.

Curriculum coverage
Reading
Develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by:

• listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction
• reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
• using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read
• increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books
• discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination

Understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:

• checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
• asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
• drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
• predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
• using the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary

Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by:

• extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although