Floodland: Reading Comprehension

This six-lesson scheme of work is perfect for your Year 6 guided reading lessons! Introduce your class to the story of ‘Floodland’ by Marcus Sedgwick, and focus on different reading skills as you and your class enjoy the story of Zoe and her adventures in this fascinating story.

All the lessons in this Floodland KS2 scheme of work come with plans, slides and printable resources, giving you (almost!) all you need to teach your Year 6 class to develop their reading comprehension.

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Analysing

Introduce your class to your new class novel by analysing and inferring information from the front cover. Look carefully at the details in the cover illustration and pick out important information about characters, setting and plot from the blurb.

The Year 6 reading activities that are included in this pack challenge your class to use this inferred information to predict what they think the story might be about and what might happen.

This lesson pack provides a detailed teaching plan, engaging PDF slides for instructional input, a selection of differentiated activity options, and printable resources to assist pupils with their independent learning.

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Sequencing

Use this complete Floodland KS2 lesson plan, slides and printable resources to investigate the author’s use of flashbacks as a device to add detail about the story’s plot and characters with your class.

Pupils will be challenged to sequence a set of events from the first two chapters. Help your class see the benefits of using flashbacks and observing the events in chronological order as well as how they appear in the story.

This lesson pack offers a thorough planning guide, PDF slides to support your teaching input, a variety of differentiated activity ideas, and printable materials to help your class during independent tasks.

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Vocabulary Choices

The engaging lesson input slides that come with this complete Floodland KS2 guided reading plan challenge your Year 6 class to identify words and vocabulary choices used by the author that they don’t know the meaning of. They are guided through how to use contextual clues and synonyms to find a suitable definition.

As a class, discuss the author’s choices of words and why they might have chosen the words from a set of synonyms before using the accompanying printable resources to have your class independently skim and scan the text to find words they may be unsure of.

This lesson pack contains a comprehensive lesson plan, a set of PDF slides for delivering the main teaching input, a range of differentiated activity suggestions, and printable resources to support your class during independent work.

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Justified Opinions

This complete lesson plan, slides provide you with everything you need to have your Year 6 class exploring and discussing the choice that Zoe has to make as she leaves Eels Island.

They are challenged to use the events and characters' actions from the story to help justify and reason their opinions and ideas, and what Zoe should decide to do. Then, using the printable resources to support them, your class is encouraged to make written justifications for ideas as they write a persuasive letter to Zoe to help her make a decision.

This lesson pack includes a detailed plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources to support your class in their independent work.

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Making Links

This Floodland KS2 lesson will provide your class with more context on the stories which the characters share with each other throughout the story. In this Year 6 guided reading lesson, they will discuss how stories teach us different life lessons and participate in rich discussions about the stories included in the book using the included lesson input slides before working independently to make links between different stories, including poetry by William Blake.

This lesson pack offers a thorough planning guide, PDF slides to support your teaching input, a variety of differentiated activity ideas, and printable materials to help your class during independent tasks.

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Predicting

The final lesson in this Floodland guided reading planning pack asks your class to predict the ending to Zoe’s adventures.

Your class will be encouraged to determine whether or not a prediction is likely to happen based on a character’s previous attitude, behaviour and motivations. The included resources promote discussion among groups about the likelihood of the predictions they make, concluding Zoe's adventures.

This lesson pack includes a detailed plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources to support your class in their independent work.

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