This resource has five Guided Reading Lessons based around Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse. Each lesson includes reading extracts (all rights go to the author Chris Riddell). Questions for paired and independent responses. Each lesson has at least one question focused to each reading area: understand words in context ask questions, discuss and explain infer and justify predict summarise identify language, structure and presentation retrieve and record

Learning intention for each lesson: To write an adventure story opening (cold task) To understand the mystery adventure genre To ask and answer questions about a text. To identify how dialogue can be used in narrative. To explore ways in which a writer engages the reader. To create character using expanded noun phrases (short burst write) To create and describe a setting (short burst write) I do not take credit for the theme of the lesson plans. The book is by Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse.

This resource has two Guided Reading Lessons based around Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse. Each lesson includes reading extracts (all rights go to the author Chris Riddell). Questions for paired and independent responses. Each lesson has at least one question focused to each reading area: understand words in context ask questions, discuss and explain infer and justify predict summarise identify language, structure and presentation retrieve and record