Throughout the course, we will be using extracts from the following texts:
'The Demon Headmaster' by Gillian Cross
'A Mouse Called Wolf' by Dick King-Smith
'Boy' by Roald Dahl
'The Black Queen' by Michael Morpurgo 
'Wind in The Willows' by Kenneth Grahame
'The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog' by Jeremy Strong

Session 1: Making Connections 
Making connections between the text and the students' own experiences, previous reading, and knowledge of the world in order to gain a greater understanding of the content. Identifying any unknown words and discovering their meanings.

Session 2: Retrieving Information
Answering questions like 'Who did...?', 'Where did...?', 'How did...?', 'What happened when...?' 

Session 3: Explaining
Answering questions like 'Who is your favourite character? Why?', 'Would you like to live in this setting? Why?/Why not?'

Session 4: Summarizing / Predicting
Identifying key words to summarize a text and making predictions beyond the text. 

Session 5: Inference
'Reading between the lines' to discover meaning which is implicit rather than explicit in a text.

Session 6: Consolidation of skills 
Students will apply all of the skills learned so far to further unseen texts.

Throughout the course, students will be taught the importance of questioning, discussing and researching the meaning of any unknown vocabulary.