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feels
talked to
talked to
talked to
The Bad- Tempered Ladybird
Car Shopping sentences
lookedWe at a car.
lookedWe at a car.
lookedWe at a car.
lookedWe at a car.
lookedWe at a car.
red
white
blue
green
yellow
We looked at a white car.
We looked at a yellow car.
We looked at a green car.
We looked at a blue car.
We looked at a red car.
Car shopping
Red car
White car
Blue car
Green car
1 Match the cars to the sentences
Yellow car
L A D Y B I R D Z RA D H Y E N A R G HE G T B E A K V T IK L I U T G W H N NG O R I L L A J R OC D F G E H S H E CH Y U I X O P R V EE G C S T I N G E RS N U Y T R H B I OT A I L K M J A W S
LADYBIRDGORILLAHYENAJAWSBEETLETAILWASPCHESTSTINGERBEAKRHINOCEROS
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Put the pictures in order
1 Click on the picture and type
what is happening.
Just Grandma and me
Match key words to pictures
lamb train
Off goes the hose!1 Match the words to the
pictures
window
Grandma
clothes
tree
me
looks like
feels
talked to
talked to
talked to
The Bad- Tempered Ladybird
Character Analysis
Where the Wild Things AreStory by Maurice Sendak
Pictures and Voices Room 3
Type the story, illustrate with student pictures, add voice over or turn it into a Theatre reading activity by colouring the different characters
speech.
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of
one kind
His mother called him “WILD THING!’ and Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without
eating anything.
Activity ideas with PowerPoint
Inspiration
Title and Author
Setting Characters Problem Events Solution
Story Development
From this write a copycat story changing characters, settings, Problems, Events and solution
Who? Where? When? What?
Reaction
Resolution or outcome
Intitiating Event or Problem
Title of the Book or Story
Storyline
Chapter Title Assignment
1Before you read the
book type in all of the titles of the chapter
2 Create a story around these titles. Use the
note button to write the story for each chapter.
3Read the story
4 Do a comparison chart between your story and
the book. List the similarities and the
differences.
Chapter Titles
Map the story
Map the story
Use pictures and text to show setting character movements
Map the storyUse pictures and text to show settings and character movements
The Barn
The fair
Wilbur's pig sty
Charlotte
Farm house
Charlottes Web
In this example children use pictures and text to map a story to illustrate the setting. They can use solid and dotted lines to show relationships.
Title and Author
Story Development
Setting Characters Problem Events Solution
Title and Author
Heromain character
Friend Friend
Story Development
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerers Stone
Setting Characters Problem Events Solution
Hogwarts Castle
England
Harry PotterSomeone is trying to steal the Sorcerer's
Stone.
Harry discovers he has special powers
Harry defeats Voldemort and finds out that Quirrel was
after the stone and not Snape.
Ron Weasley Hermione
Granger
Owls keep arriving with mail for Harry
Hagrid arrives and explains to Harry who he is and where he is going.
Harry meets Ron and Hermione
Harry goes to Hogwarts and the Sorting Hat puts him into Gryffindor
Organisation of information
What are the different parts of the book?
Contents Chapters Glossary
What are things you like
about this book?
the pictures
some of the
fonts
the colours
What are the things you
don't like about this book?
some of the fonts
some of the text is too small on the page
1Skim through the book
2 Answer the Six thinking hat questions adding more symbols if necessary
3 Decide which are the best features of the book and colour the symbols that
describes those features
Index
the messages
diagrams
the information
White
YellowBlack
Artemis Fowl is the main character in the book. He is a child prodigy which means he is very smart. But he is also a criminal.
Create an A-Z in PowerPoint
The Fairy Book is what Artemis is after. It is written in Gnomish. He wants to translate it and then rule the
Fairy world.
Commander Julius Root is the boss of the Reconnaissance division of the LEP. He has a nickname 'Beetroot' because he gets very angry very often and
his face goes red.
http://www.spydirweb.com/pictures/JuliusRoot.jpg
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
1. Use the computer thesaurus and your own dictionary to find other meanings or synonyms for these words. Type a sentence using the original word.
Word Computer Your Dictionary Sentence
dejectedly
precautionary
depicting
2. In this book there are lots of words and phrases that are used figuratively (the meaning in the story) rather than literally (the real meaning). Click the box that best demonstrates the figurative meaning in the book
The Doldrums an area with no wind or light variable winds a place you go when you are thinking of nothing
The Watchdog a person guarding against illegal practices a dog used for ensuring that time is not wasted
3. Complete the activities on the Reading Bingo chart