Reading 'The Children of Lir' and building fluency
I can read part of a traditional tale.
Reading 'The Children of Lir' and building fluency
I can read part of a traditional tale.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- ‘The Children of Lir’ is divided into short chapters and has a beginning, middle and end, like all traditional tales.
- Sounding out using phonics strategies is our most helpful way to decode unfamiliar words.
- Searching for a ‘word within a word’ is a useful strategy to comprehend words.
- Read to the end of the sentence to help to decide the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
- Re-reading a sentence fluently after decoding helps to make sense of what has been read.
Keywords
Chapter - one of the parts that a fictional book is divided into
Strategies - techniques used to support in achieving a purpose
Decode - to translate written symbols into words
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult to read words that are unfamiliar or not always decodable with phonics strategies e.g. 'jealous'.
Firstly, ensure that your school's chosen SSP has covered the GPCs covered in the book. Before independent reading, pull out words that you think the pupils may struggle with or are common exception words to practise strategies.
To help you plan your year 2 english lesson on: Reading 'The Children of Lir' and building fluency, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 2 english lesson on: Reading 'The Children of Lir' and building fluency, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 english lessons from the 'The Children of Lir': reading unit, dive into the full secondary english curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2011 Oxford University Press edition of ‘The Children of Lir' by Maire Buonocore and Isabelle Arsenault for this lesson.
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