COUNDON PRIMARY SCHOOL YEAR 5 GUIDED READING HOME

COUNDON PRIMARY SCHOOL YEAR 5 GUIDED READING HOME LEARNING PACK WEEK COMMENCING 8. 6. 20 (THIS WORK CAN BE SPLIT THROUGHOUT THE WEEK)

Key Question Your key question for these lessons are: Can I identify specific information this week?

Expert tips • Look at the expert tips on the next slide. Which tip helps when you’re unsure of the meaning of a word? • Which tip helps identify key ideas or event?

Stop and check it makes sense-take action Think and remember Explore vocabulary Ask a question Predict Visualise- form a picture in your mind Read it again Make connectionssearch for clues Summarise the text Use text structures, features and language Remember you can use any of these expert tips to help fix problems with your understanding of the text.

Setting the Scene Read ‘setting the scene’ and page 66 and 67 on the next couple of slides. Using the expert tip Think and remember: • Have you seen pictures of frozen rivers, lakes or sea in olden times? • Do you remember seeing pictures of people on the ice? What were they doing? Using expert tip Ask a question think of a question. For example I wonder when the frost fairs actually happened? It says ‘many years ago’ but I want to know the date. . Not to worry, if there is no answer for your questions then you will need to keep an eye out for this information as you continue. •

Now read pages 68 to 74 on the next few slides Remember to keep an eye out for any answers to the question you thought of earlier on e. g. What were the dates of the frost fairs?

Questions • Find todays challenge phrase (as you might expect) on pg 72 (slide 10). Read the entire sentence and try to work out what it means. • Continue on to the next page to check your answer.

• The phrase means that something is not surprising. • This kind of phrase draws the reader in and helps them engage wit the text. It is a way of saying ‘I know you are clever and you have probably worked this out for yourself.

Challenge • When reading page 68 I became confused about what ‘volcanic activity’ meant. Using the expert tips can you help me to clarify my understanding? • I am confused about the word ‘glacier’, where could I find the meaning of the word?

• Read the extract above- identify any key words that could effect the reader e. g. spectacle. • What effect does this description have on the reader? The use of words like ‘spectacle’ and ‘amazing’ show just how fantastic a sight it was to see an elephant parading on the ice.

• Imagine you are planning a day out at the frost fair in 1814. What would you do? What would you see? What would you eat? • Would you like to have gone to one of the frost fairs when the River Thames was frozen? • Next week we will be looking at a text called ‘River Rats at the Frost Fair’. What do you predict it might be about? • We will find out next week!

Answers

Expert tips • Look at the expert tips on the next slide. Which tip helps when you’re unsure of the meaning of a word? Explore vocabulary- clarify words and phrases • Which tip helps identify key ideas or event? Summarise the text

Challenge • When reading page 68 I became confused about what ‘volcanic activity’ meant. Using the expert tips can you help me to clarify my understanding? • Volcanoes can create huge clouds of ash. They must have been enormous, to stop the sun shining through. • I am confused about the word ‘glacier’, where could I find the meaning of the word? In the Glossary

• Read the extract above- identify any key words that could effect the reader e. g. spectacle. Amazing, paraded • What effect does this description have on the reader? The use of words like ‘spectacle’ and ‘amazing’ show just how fantastic a sight it was to see an elephant parading on the ice.