Flying Start to Literacy
Lower–Middle Primary Guided Reading Level 13
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Report Narrative
Report Narrative
Fantastic Bridges 9781743208281
Caring For a Baby Monkey 9781743208304
Insect Eaters 9781742340845
Report Narrative
Jack the Explorer and the Hidden City
Baby Squirrel Rescue 9781743208311
I’m Hungry 9781742340852
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Report Narrative
Historical Recount
Narrative
Animals in Caves 9781742340869
The Wreck of the Maitland 9781742340883
There’s Gold in That Cave 9781742340876
The Great Paddleboat Race 9781742340890
Guided Reading Level 14
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Diary Narrative
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Cyclone Scrapbook 9781743208328
What Do Plants Need? 9781743208342
Sea Otters and the Kelp Forest 9781742340906
Where is Coco? 9781743208335
The Great PumpkinGrowing Contest 9781743208359
The Luck of the Sea Otters 9781742340913
Explanation Narrative
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Monsoon Rain 9781742340920
No More Rubbish 9781742340944
The Wise Bird 9781742340937
The Rock of Killeen 9781742340951
Blackline master Describing bridges
Write two adjectives that describe each bridge. Use one word from the word bank and one you think of yourself.
Lesson Plans Activity card Lesson Plans include Before, During and After Reading guidance for each book, plus synthesising activities that reinforce the key concepts of each pair. There is one Lesson Plan per pair of books. Each one provides multiple opportunities for the students to read and interact with the book again and again. Design a fantastic bridge
Use ideas from the books to design a fantastic bridge. Think about: • the purpose of the bridge • what it is made from • what it is going over.
Transitional reading stage Level 13
Draw your design below and include labels.
Fantastic Bridges tells about a range of different bridges throughout the world. Each bridge is fantastic in some way. Running words: 142 Text type: Report
In Jack the Explorer and the Hidden City, Jack finds an old map. It leads him to a hidden city. On his journey, he crosses many unusual bridges. Running words: 223 Text type: Narrative
High-frequency words
Key vocabulary
New: another because down found let over people red these through walked
boats bridges build cars cave city concrete fantastic forest high hill land map river steel trains tunnel vines water
Phonics
• Isolating initial, middle and end sounds in a word • Identifying common spellings for the long /a/ sound
Text features
Fantastic Bridges
Jack the Explorer and the Hidden City
Reading strategies
Word bank rolling
• Using the photographs and captions • Using prior knowledge to make connections
ELL support
Key concepts
Curriculum link
• The introduction and conclusion state and restate the key concepts. • Chapter headings clearly signal content. • Illustrations provide support for the setting and the character.
• Bridges go over land and water. • Bridges make it easier to get from one place to another. • There are different types of bridges.
• Science: The physical world
Flying Start to Literacy Lesson Plans Fantastic Bridges / Jack the Explorer and the Hidden City © 2014–2018 EC Licensing Pty Ltd.
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Assessment Can the student match adjectives to a picture? Can the student choose appropriate adjectives to describe an object?
Paired, Connected Texts at This Stage:
• Contents page • Introduction and conclusion • Headings • Photographs with captions • Labelled map • Ellipsis
Flying Start to Literacy Lesson Plans Fantastic Bridges / Jack the Explorer and the Hidden City © 2014–2018 EC Licensing Pty
FS AUS LP L13 Fantastic Bridges Jack and the hidden city.indd 1-3
• Increase the complexity of language structures • Revisit and extend high-frequency words • Carefully introduce new, phonologically regular vocabulary • Further develop comprehension and fluency through a range of reading strategies.
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