Reading Explorers Year 4: A Guided Skills-Based Journey
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Reading Explorers Year 4 - John Murray
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Reading Explorers
A Guided Skills-Based Journey
Year 4
John Murray
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Hopscotch, a division of MA Education, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB
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© 2008 MA Education Ltd.
2012 digital version by Andrews UK Limited
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Written by John Murray with contribution from Frances Mackay
Illustrated by Emma Turner, Fonthill Creative, 01722 717057
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Introduction
About this series
Reading Explorers - A Guided Skills-Based Programme is a self-contained programme of work which has been developed to enhance the teaching and learning of guided reading.
It aims to provide teachers with a scheme of work that will enhance the development and continuity of guided reading throughout the school. More importantly, the programme actively promotes the teaching and learning of specific reading and study skills. The children thus acquire the ability to access, interpret and understand a piece of text, and are encouraged to become more independent thinkers and learners.
The main reason for the programme’s success is that it is a skills-based programme which fulfils the needs of the developing learner. The pupils themselves are aware of the specific skills they are hoping to achieve each half term and are actively involved in developing these skills through the use of wipe board and kinaesthetic activities. They are also taught how to analyse the question being asked before they attempt to look for an answer. With this approach, teachers can support the children as they become independent learners in a structured and progressive manner.
The five thinking and reasoning skills contained in this programme are as follows:
Literal thinking
Deductive reasoning
Inferential skills
Evaluative assessment of texts
Study skills which promote wider independent study
There are five books in the series, one book per year group from Year 2 to Year 6.
Year 2 (Ages 6-7)
Year 3 (Ages 7-8)
Year 4 (Ages 8-9)
Year 5 (Ages 9-10)
Year 6 (Ages 10-11)
Each book aims to:
support teachers by providing a programme of work that covers enough lessons for a whole year
reduce teachers’ preparation time through the provision of differentiated activities and resources
develop children’s comprehension skills through purposeful and stimulating activities
provide children with the opportunity to access a range of different texts and genres, as outlined in The National Literacy Strategy.
About this book
This book is for teachers of children in Year 4 and includes the following:
A planning matrix of the skills to be taught throughout the series.
A contents page that gives an overview of which skill a particular text is encouraging.
Six detailed lesson plans with accompanying photocopiable texts for each half term (36 in total)
Resources that are compatible with interactive wipe boards.
The Resources Section
This provides differentiated text for each lesson plan. It also contains supporting resource materials which will prove useful when delivering each lesson.
The main text in each book is aimed at the average reading ability of the children of this age range. The texts provided in the Resources section are at a level below and a level above the texts in the book. This will allow all children within the classroom setting to access both the text and the specific reading or study skill being taught during each half term.
The planning matrix
A planning matrix is provided immediately after the contents page. Each tick symbol represents how often a particular skill should be taught during each academic year. Each tick symbol = 1 half term lasting approximately 6 weeks.
The contents page
Once a skill has been chosen to teach, the teacher can then choose an appropriate lesson within the specific reading skill. As the lessons within each skill are self-contained, they can be undertaken in any order.
Lesson plans
The book contains 36 lessons - enough for six per half term. The heading of each section indicates