🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To infer meaning and make predictions from a suspense story

Success Criteria:

✓ I can identify key details from the story
✓ I can make predictions about what might happen
✓ I can infer characters' feelings
✓ I can use evidence from the text to support my answers

📖 The Secret of the Locked Shed

Story Summary: Mia discovered an old, rusty padlock on the garden shed that had been there for years. Her grandmother always said it contained "just old gardening tools," but Mia noticed fresh footprints in the mud leading to the shed door. Late one evening, she heard strange scratching sounds coming from inside...

🔍 Part 1: Making Inferences

a) _________________________________

b) _________________________________

🔮 Part 2: Making Predictions

💡 Differentiation Support

For dyslexic learners: Use coloured overlays, read questions aloud, or work with a buddy

For lower learners: Focus on questions 1, 2, and 5. Use pictures to help explain answers

For ADHD learners: Take breaks between sections, use fidget tools, highlight key words

Advanced learners: Complete the extension letter activity and create an alternative ending