FREE Mini-scheme: The Butterfly Lion: Reading Skills

This free complete planning pack is perfect for Year 5 The Butterfly Lion guided reading sessions. Use the included teaching input slides and printable resources for each lesson to help your KS2 class explore the different ways that a character is developed by an author, summarising a section of text and evidencing inferred information about a character and their traits.

The three lessons in this Butterfly Lion planning pack come with everything you need to develop and improve your student's reading and comprehension skills.

Within this pack, you'll find a detailed teaching plan, interactive PDF slides, a range of differentiated activities, and handy printable resources, all ready for use.

Summarising

This Year 5 reading lesson is packed full of summarising activities KS2 resources. The included lesson slides and activity ideas will help your class develop the skill of concisely and effectively summarising the story of The Butterfly Lion and its chapters.

Discuss with your class when summarising a story might be helpful, and draw out the key points which should be included in a summary using the provided printable resources. Challenge your enthusiastic readers and writers with summarising activities that require them to use a limited amount of sentences or words.

This resource pack contains a clear teaching plan, informative PDF slides, differentiated activity suggestions, and ready-to-print resources to make your lesson planning easier.

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Making Inferences using Evidence

This inference KS2 lesson plan and accompanying slides and resources will challenge your class to explore all they know about a new character in the story of The Butterfly Lion.

Your class will have the opportunity to investigate how much they know and can infer about this character from one chapter. Generate inferred information about the character’s personality as a class using the included teaching input slides and model how to pick out and use quotes from the text to justify and evidence their ideas.

This ready-to-teach pack includes a comprehensive plan, engaging PDF slides, differentiated activities, and printable resources to support your lesson delivery.

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Exploring Character Development

Investigate how and why the author develops a character throughout a story by exploring how Bertie changes as he grows.

Help your class discover how the author develops a character by giving them a lesson to learn from an event they experience within the story. Challenge the children to pick out these important events and reflect on how they change the character’s thoughts, feelings and actions.

Included in this pack are an easy-to-follow lesson plan, informative PDF slides, activities tailored to different learning levels, and printable resources to enhance your teaching.

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