Enjoy Guided Reading: Cloud Busting Teacher Notes

The Enjoy Guided Reading downloadable Teacher Notes offer a structured yet flexible framework for group guided reading sessions. Group or carousel guided reading involves dividing students into small, ability-based groups that rotate through a variety of reading activities. Differentiated titles are available for Accessible, Expected, and Confident reading levels across each year group, providing appropriately levelled texts to ensure all students can actively engage and benefit. While one group works directly with the teacher, others participate in independent or collaborative tasks, such as comprehension exercises, or silent reading. 

This resource can be used flexibly to accommodate variations in class size, the number of supporting adults, and school policies. After the teacher-led introductory session, students may read the remainder of the book independently and complete set questions. For longer novels, teachers or teaching assistants could periodically work with the children before they complete the book, monitoring the quality of their independent work, modelling high-quality answers, or discussing their responses to set questions verbally. Photocopiable activities can also be used for independent group work, as extensions for faster readers, or as homework tasks.

The group/carousel guided reading teacher notes for Cloud Busting include:

• Brief information about the author and a summary of the book. 
• Short chapter synopses to help teachers prepare for sessions and track complex storylines.
• Guidance for an introductory teacher-led session focused on starting the story and improving text comprehension through targeted questions.
• Questions (with possible answers) at the end of each chapter or specified section for students to complete independently or with support.
• At least three follow-up activities, including suggestions for reading, writing, and cross-curricular tasks linked to the novel.
• Questions to facilitate a discussion session for reviewing the novel and assessing overall comprehension.
• A curriculum coverage assessment tick sheet to record children’s participation and understanding against reading objectives.

This digital download includes guided reading teacher notes for the listed title. You will receive your files in PDF format which can be read on a variety of devices that accept PDFs, please check that your intended device can accept PDFs before purchasing. Each purchase includes a site license for the related download. This means you can share the files with your colleagues & students within your school only. Please do not share elsewhere. You are permitted to share these files with students who are home learning, however the files must not be hosted on a publicly accessible site. Unfortunately, we are unable to assist with compatibility queries, please check that your intended devices and/or systems can accept PDFs before purchasing.