1. Read all about it!
BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL
READER

2. Lesson objectives:
• To understand how to locate,
retrieve and find evidence in a text
• To identify techniques for
skimming and scanning a text

3. • You are going to see a series of
words and pictures. You need to
pay attention as you will then
need to answer a series of
questions of what you have just
seen....

5. I think,
therefore I
am.

6. Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
FROM ‘SONNET 18’

9. I once had a blind date with Cilla.
I took her to watch Aston Villa.
She sang to the crowd
And she sang very loud
And that's why they threatened to
kill 'er.

11. When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag
End announced that he would
shortly be celebrating his
eleventy-first birthday with a party
of special magnificence, there
was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.

12. Questions
• What time was it on the digital
clock?

13. • Complete this sentence, ‘ I think…’

14. • The darling buds of which month
were shaken by rough winds?

15. • What colour were the apples?

16. • What were the numbers in the
picture?

17. • Where did Cilla go on a date to?

18. • What was the boat called the
snowman and the frog were
sitting in?

19. • What birthday was Bilbo Baggins
celebrating?

20. Answers…
• 12:34
• I think therefore I am
• May
• Red and green
• 02345789
• Aston Villa
• SS Lunch
• Eleventy-first

21. Circuit training time…
• Get into groups of 5.
• At each of the 5 stations there will be an extract
from a book, post it notes and pens.
• For each extract, you will need to find evidence
within the text that tells the reader that the story
is set in an alternative reality or a place different
from the world as we know it today.
• Each team member will have 2 minutes at each
station in order to read the extract and jot down
as many pieces of evidence from the text(s) on
your post it notes.
• NB. Each piece of evidence, must be no more than 6
words long
• The winning team is the one at the end who has
the most correct evidence on their post-it notes!

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63. TIME UP!

64. How did you do?
• Stick all your group’s post it notes
on your sugar paper and let’s go
through the extracts…
• Remember, if it’s not solid
evidence, it gets chucked!

65. What makes a good reader?
• Write down the three attributes
you think make a successful
reader. Try and think about the
skills you have used today.