Reading Weekly Plan. –
Writing Focus –Personal Recounts
Term: 1 Week: 8
Wayside
School
Resource:
Total
Comprehensio
n “Sharks”
Horrible
Histories
Resource:
2:1:97 Te
Heoneta’s Nail
& Amina’s
Blanket
Spelling Focus: Short and Long Vowel sounds
W.A.L.T/LO
-To support the students in
developing the
comprehension strategies of
inferring, identifying main
ideas, and analysing and
synthesising
-To draw the students'
attention to the way the writer
has made the recount
interesting to the reader.
-To support the students in
developing the
comprehension strategies of
inferring, identifying main
ideas, and analysing and
synthesising
Monday
TCH: 1.Introduce book and
look at Sharks.
2. Ask the chn to discuss and
decide on type of writing
(F/NF).
Ask “as a report what should
we be looking for? (headings,
diagrams etc).
3. Have a quick discussion
about the 2 types of writing.
4. Share read the report to
establish general
understanding.
5. read the literal questions
explaining that these sort of
questions you will find directly
in the text – not like the
handbag task 
6. Ask the children to ask
each other a literal question
and listen to the answers.
Use the children’s examples
to show that their answer has
been turned into a statement,
which they need to do when
answering reading tasks.
IRT: work on answering the
questions.
IRT – Work through
comprehension tasks using
statements rather than
answers.
Re-Watch you tube on class
blog regarding simlies to
support learning
TCH Share re-read and look
for examples of simlies and
alliteration to support writing
and then look at question 7 as
a group.
Tuesday
IRT: Children to re-read story
and then work on reading
tasks.
Using Spell city play a game
with weeks’ spelling words or
class word/spelling focus
1.Work on completing
questions using statements
rather than answers and then
the photocopied senses chart.
Wednesday
TCH: re-read text and then work
through some of the questions as
a group. Share the 2 photocopied
tasks.
IRT: work on the tasks.
Listen to Recording on Vocaroo
following text.
IRT: 1. Complete a handwriting
card or Typing task from reading
journal.
2. spelling activity.
Using Spell city play a game
with weeks’ spelling words or
class word/spelling focus
Thursday
IRT: independently work
on the reading tasks
relating to the shark
report.
TCH: Go through questions and
answers as a group and discuss
the imagery created through “a
thousand storms”, where the
windows had once been and
mouth full of dust and smoke.
Complete work for the
week.
Using Spell city play a
game with weeks’ spelling
words or class
word/spelling focus
Paul Jennings
LO – to use higher order
thinking skills to help develop
understanding and
knowledge.
IRT: Complete any work
remaining from previous
weeks
2. Handwriting task/typing
task using pages.
3. SSR
The Twits
WALT: identify how the
author uses language to
convey meaning and
influence the reader.
Continue on with The lion the
witch and the wardrobe tasks.
Conference with Phoebe
TCH: Share read the The
twits chapter 2 & 3
2. revisit the questions as a
group and check that the
group is understanding of the
sttements.
IRT: Read text independently
and work through reading
tasks incorporating higher
order thinking skills.
1.
2.
3.
Handwriting task.
Dictionary task
Continue on with
reading contracts.
IRT: Read text independently and
work through reading tasks
incorporating higher order
thinking skills.
1.
2.
Tch conference looking
at key note book review
using higher order
thinking.
Continue on with tasks
including book review.
TCH: Review and reflect
on how the children are
going with turning
answers into statements.
Share read part of the
book and ask the children
to share their favourite
parts and explain why.
(oral langauge skills)
IRT: Children to record
favourite quote on
voacroo explaining the
langauage feature. (Put
on individual blogs)
Continue on with The lion
the witch and the
wardrobe tasks.