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Learning objectives: read more challenging texts; recognise automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words; use syntax and context when reading for meaning; fi nd specifi c information in simple texts; take turns to speak, listen to others’ suggestions and talk about what they are going to do
Curriculum links: Science: Plants and animals in the local environment
High frequency words: when, some, just, out, what, has
Interest words: night, animals, sleep, waking, feed, bat, ears, hear, dark, bushbaby, eyes, see, raccoon, fi ngers, feel, coyote, nose, smell
Resources: whiteboard, ICT
Word count: 86
Ideas for reading
Getting started• Ask children if they know about and have seen any animals that wake up at
night time, e.g. bats, hedgehogs, owls.
• Write on the whiteboard the names of animals that the children will be
reading about, e.g. bat, bushbaby, raccoon, coyote. Help them to read
the names.
• Look at the title page together. Ask children to try to identify the animal from
the list on the whiteboard.
• Read the title aloud and discuss why some animals might wake up at night
time and what they do when they wake up.
Reading and responding• Read pp76–77 together. Ask children if this will be a story or an information
book and how they can tell.
• Look at the photograph on p77. Ask children to explain what is happening in
the picture.
• Ask children to continue to read the book with a partner to fi nd out about
each animal that wakes at night.
• Support children to read new words, reminding them to use phonic knowledge
and the pictures.
Returning to the book• Using the images on pp88–89, ask children to identify each creature and
recount what they are doing in the dark and what they need for their activity,
e.g. The raccoon needs long fi ngers to feel in the dark.
• Look at the bushbaby on pp80–81. Ask children why the bushbaby might
run up trees at night, e.g. to keep safe; to fi nd food without being eaten by
another animal.
• Ask children to search the book for a tricky word and model how they used a
range of strategies to read it.
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Written by Clare Dowdall BA(Ed), MA(Ed) Lecturer and Primary Literacy Consultant