A pre-prepared guided reading lesson plan for every Reading Stars Achieve Phonics title, Phases 2 to 5.
Designed to reduce teacher workload, these plans make it simple to deliver structured literacy lessons around our fully decodable books for KS2/KS3, unlocking their potential to become part of the teaching of comprehension, inference, punctuation, etc.
The lesson plans are structured as follows:
* Book Overview
* Before Reading (includes “Introducing the book” then, where relevant, “Phonics recap”, “Blending focus”, “Language focus”, “Vocabulary”)
* During Reading (includes “Independent reading” and “Reading with fluency”)
* After Reading (includes “Revisit the text”, “Comprehension”, “Language, grammar and punctuation” and “Discussion”)
NOTE FOR SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND:
If your chosen SSP programme supplies its own pre-prepared guided reading lesson plans (like, say, Unlocking Letters and Sounds does), we strongly encourage you to use those plans, to ensure you’re delivering the SSP programme with fidelity.
If your chosen SSP programme does not supply its own pre-prepared guided reading lesson plans, but does provide a format for/guidance around guided reading, we strongly encourage you to follow that format/guidance, to ensure you’re delivering the SSP programme with fidelity. Our pre-prepared plans should still be a useful resource – if you can plug our content into their format, at least you don’t have to come up with your own comprehension questions from scratch!
“I’m getting the idea that they are more mature and the font is for older boys. The pictures, too, are more mature. It’s so amazing what lies behind text and pictures, how much thought goes into producing a book that is so appropriate for the child!”
Leah Brunner, Teacher
“A huge hit with our 11-18 SEN students and really got them interested in learning to read.”
Vickey Bratton, Administration and Finance Officer
"The Reading Stars Achieve Phonics series have been an instant hit with our KS2 readers who are still developing their phonemic awareness and who at times do not have the same enthusiasm for reading as some of their peers. These books have been a game changer! We have seen an increased drive to read and along with this more success at applying their phonic and reading skills.”
Ruth Turner, Teacher
“All junior aged children who are reading at this level can immediately identify that these books are worth reading. Many children made links to stuff they have watched on TV and asked questions to clarify things, showing teachers that they are genuinely motivated by the content. No other set of books opens up so many different avenues to be explored - and makes reading so awesome/accessible, all the while progressing students’ phonics, fluency and comprehension.”
Jo Clements, SENCO
"As a SEND secondary school, this series is a really great way for our students to catch up on their phonics skills without feeling bored."
Sarah Gaafar, Librarian
"This new collection of books contain themes which will doubtless engage KS2 readers who are still on their school’s phonics programme. The photographs are stunning and the illustrations are in a variety of styles, which provides added interest. The non fiction texts contain some fascinating facts – there were several things I didn’t know before reading them! I would recommend any school using a Letters and Sounds based phonics programme takes a look at these, as you can purchase them title by title to ensure you get a perfect match for your programme."
Lesley Clarke, Literacy Consultant
