Guided Reading: Hodgeheg Planning

Lesson 1 Lesson 2
Week 8 Hedgehogs – prior knowledge – look at pics and discuss some
features of hedgehogs Activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uf7digx8xg Summarise
hedgehog moving https://www.youtube.com/watch? Summarise the events of this chapter in one sentence.
v=SVrXEyEEiaw
Max’s Aunt Betty has been run over so Max wants to find out how
Chapter 1 humans cross the road safely.
Look at the front cover. What do you think the book will be about?
What things can you see on the front cover? Extension:
What sort of story will it be? Who might enjoy it? Retrieve
Now read the blurb – were any of your predictions correct? Why do Why is the local park popular for hedgehog?
you think the author called the book The Hodgeheg? List 3 things hedgehogs like to eat.

Vocabulary
 Copped it
 Dwelt
 Sow
 Hastily, semi detached

Infer
Find a word on the first page that shows Ma is upset?
What can you infer if everywhere is a bad place to cross nowadays?
Why doesn’t Ma want to discuss it in front of the children?
Why do you think they call the youngest Max for short?

Predict
How will Max find out how humans cross roads safely?
Explain
How do the pictures add to meaning?
Retrieve
Who has copped it?
Where do they live?
Why is the park popular for hedgehogs?
Week 9 Recap chapter 1 and read chapter 2 Retrieve
Vocabulary 1. What did max creep under?
 Nocturnal 2. What could Max see across the road?
 Define ‘stock-still’ 3. Where does Max see people crossing?
 Crouched 4. What does Max believe is the secret to crossing?
 Cautiously
Infer Activity
What was the sea of noise? Sum up the character of Max so far in one word and explain your choice
What are the noisy monsters? Why are they described as this? Draw a picture of max – write 1-2 words which describe Max
What does thundered past mean? Curious
Why do you think Max chose to go downhill? Inquisitive
Brave
Predict: Fearless
What will happen if/when Max decides to cross? Courageous
Valiant
Explain Bold
Why doesn’t Max know what he’s reached? How does the author Write a sentence
show the reader this? Max is _____ because he ______

Summarise Extension
Sum up the character of Max so far in one word and explain your Draw other nocturnal animals and explain what nocturnal is
choice

Week 10 Chapter 3 & 4 Retrieve

Road safety When did the lorry driver swerve and why?
week Vocabulary Where does max get hit by the bike?
- Rush hour How did max find his way home?
- What is a lorry? How is it different to other vehicles on What happens to Max’s speech?
the road?
- Feverishly Activity:
- Wearily Watch king of the road adverts – why did they use hedgehogs?
- Anxiously Write some tips to help max cross the road
- Hibernation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4Ye4EZo00
- Intervals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hplRpOdOXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IemaPHDPQ54
Infer
 Why does max want to cross in front of something?
Why didn’t the lorry slow down?
Why was the cyclist sad?
Why does max have a headache?
Why might people not notice hedgehogs when they are still (ch4)

Predict:
Will max try to cross the road again? (ch3)
What will happen when the green light comes on (Ch4)

Explain
What do the pictures add to this chapter?
Where does the book’s title come from?

Week 11 Chapter 5 Retrieve

Vocabulary Why did max not catch anything in the park?
Confronted
Ornamental ACTIVITY
Conclusion Write the speech between the strange hedgehog and Max
Inquisitive LO: LO: Describe Max and the strange hedgehogs conversation
Frantically

Infer
What time is it and how do you know (ch5) – night – full moon
Why do you think Max is excited to be in the park (ch5)

Predict
How might the bang on his head affect Max?

Explain
Why do you think the author chose the phrase a forest of legs (ch5)

Week 12 Chapter 6&7 Summarise - ACVITITY

Vocabulary LO: Summarise chapter 6 and 7
- Bonanza
 - Scoffed – what does this tell you about the way pa ate?
- Bloated Draw a picture and write 2-3 sentences to describe what has happened in
- A trifle embarrassed? Read in context – what does it mean chapter 6-7
in this context?
Chapter 7
- Enquire
- Hindfoot
- Ambition
- Pondered

Infer Chapter 6
Why did pa fall asleep?
Why did everyone have worried faces?
Why were the neighbour’s eyes twinkling?

Infer chapter 7
Why were the family celebrating?
How can you tell that Max won’t be staying in the garden?
Who is the human uncle B refers to?

Explain
Why does the author use the term gentlehog?

Week 13 Chapter 8&9 Retrieve

Vocabulary How many spines does max have?
- Unaccustomed
- A dozen ACTIVITY
- Procession LO: Design a new front cover for the book
- Stoutly
Chapter 9 vocab What phrase tells us that the lollypop lady was shocked?
- Henceforth, concealed, crisp morning, meekly Why is Max now seen as a hero to hedgehogs?
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Chapter 8 infer
Why are Max’s spines tingling?
Why does Max follow the humans?
Who was the human Max saw?
 Why doesn’t pa want to go out in the daytime?
Why do they all decide to go?

Chapter 9 infer
Why did the hedgehogs conceal themselves?
Why did the noise the lollypop lady make mean nothing to Max?
Why do you think the lollypop lady stopped the traffic?

Chapter 8 – explain
True or False – is Uncle B a noble hedgehog? Explain
Week 14 Recap and discuss – book review optional