English Lesson 1 LO. To make predictions about a text.

1. What do you think the book might be about and why?

2. What genre of book do you think this might be?

3. Look at the word ‘Gods’ in the title. Can you use your background knowledge to predict what this book is about?

Read the first chapter.

• What characters were introduced in the story?

• Can you describe what the characters were like using the character descriptions in the text?

• I wonder why Elliot can’t tell anyone about what's happening. What do you think is happening at home?

• What do you think will happen next?

Likes Dislikes

Puzzles/Surprises Patterns/Connections

Predict what will happen next:

TASK: Tell meFill in the boxes with your thoughts and ideas about chapter 1.

There are no right or wrong answers.

English Lesson 2 LO. To infer meaning from the text

Recap the text

• What happened in the first chapter of the story?

• What characters were we introduced to?

When we make inferences while

reading, we are using the evidence that is available

in the text to draw a logical conclusion

Read pages 9-10.

• What meanings can you pick out from the text? Use you background knowledge to help you make inferences.

The text tells me that Elliot’s home is on a farm.

If it is darkening at 4.30pm it must be winter.

I think the text suggests that Elliot is lonely and has no one to care for him.

TASK: Use your inference skills to pick out meaning from the text.

Highlight or write down quotes from the text and explain what the meaning is behind them.

Use your background knowledge to help you.

A copy of page 9 and 10 are on the website.

English Lesson 3 LO. To infer meaning from the text

Recap the text

• What has happened so far?

• What inferences did you pick out of the text yesterday?

Read pages 11-13.

• What meanings can you pick out from the text? Use you background knowledge to help you make inferences.

TASK: Answer the questions below using evidence from the text

• Do you think Elliot’s family are wealthy ? Why/why not?

• ‘He put his key in the lock’ – do you think anyone is home?

• Do you think Elliot likes MrsPorshley-Plum? What kind of person do you think she is?

• Why do you think Elliot lied about his mum having a sickness bug?

• What do you think Mrs. PorshleyPlum meant when she said, ‘we must have That Chat’?.

English Lesson 4 LO. To infer meaning from the text

Recap the text –

• What characters where we introduced to in this chapter.

• Do you think the chat Mrs Porshley-Plum wants to have with Elliot's mum is going to be about something good or bad?

Read pages 11-13.

• What meanings can you pick out from the text?

• Pay attention to how the writer gives extra background information about Elliot’s family.

TASK: Highlight and annotate or make notes page 13 and 14.

Use your inference skills to pick out meaning behind the text.

• Think about the background information we find out about Elliot.

• What thoughts and feelings do you think Elliot has?

• Has your perception of Mrs Porshley-plum changed? Is she a nice person?

Example:I think Mrs Porshley-Plum is very insensitive because she chose to speak about her business ideas at Elliot’s Nans funeral. The text says ‘she had whispered to Josie at the graveside about her new property-development business and how the farm was sitting on a valuable piece of land’.

Mrs Porshley-Plum doesn’t seem to care that his Nan has died and only cares about her business opportunity and how much money she will get from doing this.

English Lesson 5 LO. To infer meaning from the text

Summary

• A summary is shortened retelling of a longer piece, like a book, movie or essay, in your own words.

WAGOLL

• Jack, a poor country boy, trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, which grow into an enormous beanstalk reaching up into the clouds. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an unfriendly giant. The giant senses Jack's presence and cries, “Fee, fie, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!” Outwitting the giant, Jack is able to retrieve many goods once stolen from his family, including an enchanted goose that lays golden eggs. Jack then escapes by chopping down the beanstalk. The giant, who is pursuing him, falls to his death, and Jack and his family prosper.

Recap the text - As a class discuss and jot down the main events from chapters 1&2.

• What has happened so far in chapters 1 and 2.

• What characters did we meet?

• What were the main events?

Task: Summarise Chapters 1 and 2 using the main events you wrote down on your whiteboards.

Key Vocabulary for chapter 3

• Zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

• Ambrosia – A food of ancient Greek gods. Whoever drinks it supposedly becomes immortal.

• Elysium - also called Elysian Fields or Elysian Plain, in Greek mythology, originally the paradise to which heroes on whom the gods conferred immortality were sent.

Read chapter 3 a star is born.

• What have we now been introduced to?

• Where is this chapter set?

• What is happening in this chapter.