Friday 10th July 2026

LC: Use active reading strategies to answer questions and draw inferences , and justify with evidence from the text using point and evidence.

Let's remember the order of events and summarise chapter 1.

What skills we need to find information?

Remember we need to know the order of events, scan for key words and phrases, skim read to check if the information we need is in the part we located, then use close reading to confirm.

Let's try with this:

Where had Auntie Betty copped it?

Who can find the part of the text that tells us first?

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Now you answer these questions in your book.

Where do the hedgehogs live?

What are the names of the three daughters?

What animals lived in the park that weren’t in the garden?

What was Max’s full name?

What did Pa ask Max to tell him?

What is inference? As we are reading we are using clues the author has left for us to make sense of the text. For example:

George skipped into the room with a big smile on his face. His smile grew even wider when he saw all of the presents on the table, and a big cake with a number seven candle on the top.

What do we infer? How is George feeling? How do we know? Why is he feeling that way? How do we know? What else do we know about George?

What did you infer as you were reading the chapter?

Bad place to cross, that.’ Why do you think Pa says this?

Do you think the Park is good for hedgehogs? Why?

How do you think Pa feels about the road safety issues?

When we are introduced to Max on p5, what is your first impression of him? Explain your answer.

What impression of Max do we get on page 7?

Adapted 1

Find the answers to these questions in the text and write them in your book.

Where were mum and dad sitting when they were talking?

What was on the other side of the road?

What could the hedgehogs find in their own garden?

What else could they find in the park?

What did the hedgehogs have to do to reach the park?

Adapted 2

10.07.26

LC: Divide 3 digit by one digit numbers (Bus stop method)

Copy these equations into your book so that you can use the bust stop division method to calculate the answers.

Adapted

Friday 10^th July 2026

Review

Bingo

Draw a 3x2 grid on your board.

Choose 6 of the words from below and write one in each square of your grid.

breadth busy business therefore possible

possess strength ordinary opposite natural

If I pick one of your words out of the hat, cross it off. Who will be the first to cross them all off? BINGO!

Learning

Can you remember what Sticky Word Strategies we can use to help us remember how to spell words? Let me remind you:

Sticky Word Strategy: Colourful Words

strength

peculiar

Sticky Word Strategy: Triangle Words

Knowledge

Kno

Know

Knowl

Knowle

Knowled

Knowledge

Surprise

Sur

Surp

Surpr

Surpri

Surprise

surprise

Sticky Word Strategy: Read, Turn, Write, Check

breadth

pressure

Now help me apply the words in sentences, first of all orally and then in writing.

Practise and Apply

Use the best Sticky Word Strategy to practise spelling each of these words until you are really confident you are able to spell them correctly independently.

certain exercise imagine knowledge

position possess question surprise

Apply the words in sentences, orally and then in writing.