English Reading Training
Pupil C
Collection of C’s work:
Guided reading: Charlie and the Bridesmaid (fiction)
Book review: Hogsel and Gruntel (fiction)
Guided and individual reading sessions: The Picky Prince (fiction)
Individual reading questioning: Fish (non-fiction)
Guided reading and group questioning: Liquid Gold (non-fiction)
Home school reading diary
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Assessment opportunity 1
Guided reading: Charlie and the Bridesmaid (fiction)
In this guided reading session, the teacher asked a range of questions intended to focus on AFs 3, 5 and
6. Chris’s responses were noted.
Question 1: Why did Charlie feel sick when she looked inside the
box? (page 5)
C: Because she doesn’t want to be a bridesmaid.
Question 2: So how do you think she is feeling when she finally sees
the dress?
C: She was excited until she saw it was the bridesmaid dress.
It’s purple and has frills. It’s so horrible, when she sees the
dress she feels sick.
Question 3: Charlie tries on the dress. How is she feeling and how do
you know?
C: You can see on her face she hates it. She says ’I’m not
wearing it!’.
Question 4: How does the writer of the story let us know Charlie
doesn’t want to wear the dress?
C: She tells us what Charlie says and I can see Charlie’s
face. Charlie shouts things like ‘I don’t care!’ Charlie yelled.
She says it like (…child shouts it!)
Question 5: How do you think the writer of the story feels about
Charlie?
C: Charlie learns her lesson but still gets her way because
she wears her jeans.
Question 6: Do you think her family (mom – aunty the bride and
others know)
C: No because she is winking. She’s like a tomboy.
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Assessment opportunity 2
Book review: Hogsel and Gruntel (fiction)
Pupils were encouraged to read a selection of books at home, then to select for review one they had
enjoyed. Using the format provided, C wrote a review of ‘Hogsel and Gruntel’.
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Assessment opportunity 3
Guided and individual reading sessions: The Picky Prince (fiction)
The teacher completed a guided reading record, used by the school, and prepared some questions
related to several pages from ‘The Picky Prince’. The questioning was designed to cover a range of
AFs.
Question 1: Read the title and using the whole cover tell me what you
think the book is about?
C: It is a problem…might not know what he wants to eat.
Question 2: What does the picture on the front cover suggest?
C: He’s not happy – he won’t eat it.
Question 3: What do you think of the pribce, do you think or expect to
like him?
C: Yes because he is like me, I am a fussy eater.
Question 4: Why does it read ‘The feast smelled delicious to
everyone but the prince’. (page 3)
C: He might not know what he wants to eat. He doesn’t like
that.
Question 5: Lets read on and see what the prince wants to eat. (page
4)
C: The queen had cooked ‘crunchy carrots and buttered
beans’, but he wants something round.
Question 6: What do you think he might want?
C: I don’t know he might want an apple.
Question 7: The jester ‘cart wheeled off to the kitchen’. Why did he
do this?
C: It’s quicker.
Question 8: Yes, can you think of any other reason? Why didn’t he
run?
C: Could be quicker.
Question 9: Can you read the text and use the picture to say how the
prince is feeling now? (page 11)
C: He is green – I think he feels sick. He didn’t like it.
Question 10: Ho do you know?
C: ‘He made a face like a rotten apple’
Question 11: What do you think that is? Why did he do that?
C: Like his face in the picture
Question 12: Oh dear! The prince still isn’t happy. (page 15)
C: Yuk! I don’t blame the prince and he wants it extra chewy.
Question 13: What do you think the prince really wants? (page 18)
C: He is going straight there.
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Question 14: No you have read the story, can you remember the
main points?
C: There was delicious food he won’t eat.
They bring silly things.
The prince makes his own pizza.
They all eat it.
Question 15: Does this remind you of any other stories?
C: Yes when the princess doesn’t want the food.
Question 16: Do you know what it is called?
C: It’s in my book corner.
Question 17: You said earlier that you liked the prince because he is
a fussy eater like you. What do you think now?
C: He thinks he’s smartest – he is – no-one could cook pizza
– he did.
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Assessment opportunity 4
Individual reading questioning: Fish (non-fiction)
This individual oral question and discussion session followed class work on the features of non-fiction
texts. The focus of the session was to find evidence of AF4 but additional questions were asked which
related to AFs 2 and 3. C had not previously read the book ‘Fish’ which was used throughout this
session.
Question 1: What type of book is this?
C: Non-fiction.
Question 2: How do you know?
C: Cos fish are real.
Question 3: What is it about the book that helps you decide it is nonfiction? Even before you read it?
C: It has photographs and a glossary we’ve just been
learning about them.
Question 4: Lets have a little look inside.
C: It’s alphabetical.
Question 5: That’s right. Can you use the alphabetical order to help
you find a Frog fish?
C: [flicks quickly to page]
Question 6: Can you tell me something about them?
C: They live in warmer seas, not cold seas.
Question 7: That’s right. Now lets find the Clown fish.
C: [goes straight to page] It’s Nemo!
Question 8: Yes, did you know they were called Clown fish?
C: No. I saw the film.
Question 9: Can you tell me why the tentacles contain poison?
C: Protects them from predators.
Question 10: Do you know what a predator is?
C: Yes – they want to kill them.
Question 10: Why is predator in bold?
C: We can go to the glossary [goes immediately to glossary]
Question 11: If I ask you to find the Whale Shark what information do
you expect to find?
C: The size
Question 12: Why?
C: Because it shows you the size of all the animals [points to
the diagram giving fish size].
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Question 13: Let’s have a look. Let’s see if we can find out how Grunt
fish got their name.
C: [goes to G – Grunt] ‘A grunt grinds it’s teeth, making a
sound like a pig’
Question 14: Now I will give you a minute to find your favourite fish
and `tell me why.
C: I like the Frog fish. They like warmer seas and I like warm
sea.
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Assessment opportunity 5
Guided reading and group questioning: Liquid Gold (non-fiction)
The guided group read through the blurb and the first three pages of the book ‘Liquid Gold – Water on
Tap’ and this was followed by a number of prepared discussion points and questions.
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Assessment opportunity 6
Home school reading diary
The pupils regularly complete a reading diary of the short stories or books they have read either at home
or a school. Some of the written responses relate to short stories contained in C’s reading book ‘Sally
and the Booted Puss and Other Stories’.
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