Have you ever played Rock, Paper, Scissors? Now you can play Geek, Robot, Overlord like Lance and his friends in Crater Lake by Jennifer Killick. Watch the video to listen to Jennifer explain the rules.
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Chapter-by-chapter lesson ideas to accompany Grace-Ella: Spells for Beginners, Grace-Ella: Witch Camp and Grace-Ella: Pixie Pandemonium by Sharon Marie Jones. Click on the images below to download each lesson plan.
Author and illustrator Shoo Rayner has created a fantastic activity pack to accompany his book, Walker: The boy who can talk to dogs.
In this activity pack you will find background material, a how-to-draw guide, a comprehension crossword and quiz, word search, colouring sheets and more. Click on the image to download.
You can also find lots of dog and Walker videos at www.shoorayner.com/walker
Children’s author and academic Dr Vanessa Harbour has created cross-curricular lesson plans to accompany her WWII novel Flight. Click on the lesson subjects below to download the files.
This resource was created by The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE). CLPE is a charity working to improve literacy in primary schools. Find out more about their training courses, free resources and high-quality teaching sequences at: www.clpe.org.uk
Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare, illustrated by Jane Matthews, won the Branford Boase Award in 2016. The purpose of this lesson outline is to support teachers in reading aloud a selected text that and to talk about the text with their children, allowing children to respond to and understand the text in greater depth.
‘From the moment of his birth Aubrey is destined to be different — a ‘rambunctious wolf’ whose early years are marked by scrapes and incidents, the idyllic life he shares with his loving parents belies the difficulties in store, as his father succumbs to depression, and Aubrey must bring his imagination to bear to find a solution to the monster that threatens his father and his family. The story is told with humour and sensitivity, without shying aware from the darker side of parental depression.’ CLPE
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This lesson plan has been created by author and teacher, Laura Sheldon, to accompany her book Mr Mahli’s Shed and a ghost named Dylan. By the end of the session, pupils will have created their own poems using the words of Dylan Thomas and have an understanding of the poet and one of his poems. Ideal for mixed ability KS2.
Please note, the link given to a BBC Schools page is no longer available. Here is Dylan Thomas reading Fern Hill as an alternative:
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