Follow the Clues Online - Year 4

Help students read online texts with a clear purpose. The fictional Creekside Discovery Hub gives them a complete set of practice pages for predicting destinations, locating facts and explaining how a feature helps. A twelve-mission Reader’s Route partner game builds purposeful practice. The unseen Lighthouse Learning Centre case provides a separate transfer assessment.

The unit moves beyond naming a button or choosing a large picture. Students compare headlines and grouped/scattered layouts, distinguish graphics from links, and explain how two features can work together for a reading goal. All essential facts are in the pack.

What's included

• 41-page Unit Plan PDF: contents cover; one combined teacher quick-start; five 50-minute lesson plans; 34 resource/answer pages.
• Six colour Creekside practice pages.
• Five-feature reference, closed/open menu mat and layout comparison.
• Reader’s Route instructions/worked turn, twelve mission cards, two complete key pages and four-turn record.
• Six black-and-white response sheets and six red sample-answer twins.
• Two colour Lighthouse assessment case pages.
• Two black-and-white assessment sheets and two red sample-answer twins.
• Analytic rubric and applied rating/evidence/next-step sample.
• Editable 21-slide presentation.
• Editable 22-slide quiz with ten question/answer pairs, cover and closing slide.
• 84-page watermarked Preview PDF and contents JPEG.

Learning focus

Recognise headlines, drop-down menus, links, graphics and layout; predict useful destinations; follow home/subpage routes; extract facts; explain feature effects using evidence; compare readability; apply the strategies to unfamiliar supplied pages.

Classroom use

Five 50-minute lessons. Print or project the practice pages and use the response sheets for individual or paired work. Menus and links are static examples: students point to a label and find the matching page. The core lessons require no student account or independent internet browsing. Lesson plans include modelling, guided/independent practice, support, extension and assessment. Keep Lighthouse for the transfer lesson. Accept other routes when supported by the supplied pages and a clear reason.

Teacher benefits

All essential practice facts supplied; purposeful navigation and explanation tasks; partner game with worked example and keys; separate unfamiliar-case transfer evidence; low-ink black-and-white response pages; access options without grading handwriting or device speed.

Digital product and licence

Digital download; no physical product. Use for teaching in your own classroom. Do not redistribute or resell the source files.

Formats, page counts and answers

Presentation PPTX: 21 slides.

Quiz PPTX: 22 slides, including ten questions with separate answer explanations.

Unit Plan PDF: 41 A4 portrait pages, including 34 resource/answer pages.

Preview PDF: 84 pages, Unit Plan followed by the actual widescreen presentation and quiz; watermarked except the contents cover.

TOC: one JPEG.

Listing copy: three TXT files.

Nine red answer/sample pages cover the six response sheets, two assessments and rubric. The game has separate complete route/fact/reason keys. PowerPoint teaching and quiz text is editable; resource-page artwork within the Unit Plan PDF is fixed.