looks like

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

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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.

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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