Purple Guided Reading Sheet Fiction

G.R. Group

Book band: PURPLE

NC level: 2B

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TEXT TYPE: Fiction

Book title Strategies used:

TARGETS FOR LEVEL 2B FICTION

• Look through a variety of texts with growing independence to predict content, layout and story development • Read silently or quietly at a more rapid pace, taking note of punctuation and using it to keep track of longer sentences • Solve unfamiliar words on the run • Adapt to fiction, non-fiction or poetic language with growing flexibility • Take more conscious account of literary effects used by writers • Begin to make more conscious use of reading to extend speaking.

Decoding strategies (AF1)

Understand, describe, select or retrieve.(AF2) Deduce, infer or interpret….. (AF3) Explain & comment on writer’s language..(AF5) Identify & comment on writer’s purposes..(AF6)

A=phonic knowledge: sound out phonemes and words & blend them together. B=Graphic knowledge: look at the shape of the word C=Grammatical knowledge: which type of word would fit into this sentence? D= Context: What would make sense in the story? E= Pictorial clues : use the pictures in the book

Lesson Sequence: 1.Book introduction 2. Strategy checks 3. ‘Walk through’ the text 4. Independent Reading 5. Returning to text for teaching points 6.Responding to the text & follow up

I can use punctuation to help me make my reading more interesting. I can read words from my teacher’s List 2. I can split words into syllables to read long words. I can blend words with long vowel phonemes such as played, sound, moon. I use different ways to work out words I don’t know I often spot my own mistakes in reading and make changes I can guess what might happen in a text by comparing the plot to others I’ve read by the same author. I can guess what might happen in a text by comparing the plot to similar stories. I can find clues in a text to help me explain the meaning. I can say what I think, and find parts of the text to say why I think it I can talk about what characters might be thinking or feeling using clues in the text. I can talk about how the words that the author has chosen affects the meaning. I can make reading choices based on what I have read before.

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-What is the main event of the story? Why do you think this? How did you think it would end/should end?

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Has the author put certain words in bold or italic? Why have they done this? Has the author used a variety of sentence structures? Were you surprised by the ending? Is it what you expected? Why/why not? Why do you think authors use short

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