📚 Explorers: Reading Circles

A fully interactive A2.2 Kids reading-strategy lesson from the Explorer Club Master Level. Master explorers learn how to read better together in a reading circle, where every reader takes one special role. The Skill Focus teaches the four jobs in three toolkit blocks: the Four Reading Jobs (word detective, question maker, summariser, illustrator), a Word Detective strategy for guessing new words from clues, and a Question Maker's table of question starters (Who, Where/When, Why, What happened, How do you know). Ten key words (reading circle, role, word detective, clue, guess, question maker, summarise, summary, illustrator, character) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The reading is a short Explorer story about Team Compass running their first circle on a lost-dog story, with hover-tooltip vocabulary and past tenses recycled in context (including while + past continuous). Practice offers 8 single-word fill-in-the-blank items on the roles and strategy words with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section gives each explorer a role plus a five-line model circle dialogue; a guided 30–50 word writing task asks students to be the question maker on a home text (name a character, write three questions, add a one-sentence summary) with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question quiz mixes role/strategy questions with two comprehension questions about the reading, with a progress bar, explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.