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The Rainbow Fish is a lovely, heart-warming story of sharing and the happiness that sharing can bring yourself and others. It also depicts how difficult sharing can be and the impact that sharing can have on friendships.

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1) draw the little blue fish - write some emotions the other fish might have felt when being left out by the rainbow fish

2) why do you think the rainbow fish was happy when he gave away all his favourite scale?

3) if you had to give something away what would it be and why? expand this and organise a charity collection for the class and get each child to b ring in an item of their choice - cross curriculum links with PSHE

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This is a lovely book to help children understand the impact of bullying, and about finding your inner strength. This book takes you through a little girls school journey, and focuses on how bullying impacted her feelings towards school. Nearer the end of the book we see the main character(who isn't named) overcome the bullying and "walk past it" and in turn doing all the things the bully said she could not do. This book is aimed at KS1 children and I think is a really well laid out story which produces a clear message to children about how to act. The illustrations of this story are really soft and fun, with colours that stand out and would engage well with children. Also the tiger - a symbol of something strong and powerful - being a great representative for the child's confidence.

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This is a rhyming story about a young monkey who has lost his mum. He meets a butterfly and is taken on a long journey to find his mother, in the end he finds his father who takes the young monkey to his mother. Monkey Puzzle is not only a lovely heart-warming story but also a great teaching tool for KS1 children with learning phonics.

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Three activities I believe would be best suited working along side this book is:

1) Drawing your personal tiger and annotating inside emotions you might feel if this were happening to you and then around the tiger write things you could do to help yourself or someone else in that situation - this not only creates great cross curriculum links with Art but this also includes elements of the PSHE curriculum, engaging children through three different subjects I believe would make this easier for all children access this part of their learning.

2) Role Play, one pupil can be the character in the book and another their tiger - this is a great way for the children to understand how to act when someone is getting bullied or is feeling sad however it also allows the pupils to experience how it might make someone feel if they get bullied and therefore act as a deterrent for some children and it gets them to think about their behaviour more in depth including what effects it might have on other people.

3)Tiger related display task, the pupils could create a range of different pieces of work eg. poems, drawings, fact sheets and posters all about tigers, they could then be asked about why a tiger might represent and allow a person to be strong, this will really stretch some children allowing them to think deeper and develop their ability to read between the lines and read deeper into a story.

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Three activities I believe would be best suited working along side this book would be:

1) try and make your own chapter of the book

2) role play/ making a class play

3)pick an animal and apart from the describing words used is there any others you can think of?

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Georges Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl 

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Georges Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl 

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Georges marvellous medicine – this is a fun and creative story with lots of different elements for children to enjoy. It engages skills children would have learnt at a younger age – such as phonics skills but will also allow them to develop their English techniques by learning new devices such as onomatopoeias. It allows children to access lots of different vocabulary and enhances their imagination. Some teachers may choose not to share this piece of literature due to its mischievous nature however (depending on the class in question) I believe literature should be fun for children and engaging in order to get children interested in reading for pleasure.

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1) Ask the children to draw a picture of George, then get them to put what emotion he could have felt when deciding to make the “medicine” and then ask them to write on the outside his emotions after grandma had drunk the potion.

2) Discuss the word onomatopoeia and ask the pupils to identify such words within their favourite part of the book – for an extension ask them to give different examples for items you could print out on a sheet or put on the board such as, bacon in a pan, a fizzy drink, a balloon popping ect.

3) Ask the children to write a bibliography about grandma. Ask them to answer these questions: What happened to her during her life? Why did she become so grumpy? – as an extension task carry out a ‘hot seat’ activity with grandma to reflect on the story from her point of view (this can either be the teacher as grandma or the children, based off the class and their abilities).

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The Boy at the Back of the Class - Onjali Q Rauf 

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The Boy at the Back of the Class - Onjali Q Rauf 

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This story is about a refugee boy who overcomes a lot and makes friends with an ordinary 9-year-old boy and his three classmates, it is a really heartwarming story, which gives children examples of sensitivity, curiosity, ingenuity, bravery and innocent niceness. a book like this I think would be good if the class started the book as a class read, i.e. a few pages at a time or the first chapter, then took the book home and read one chapter themselves to come in for evaluation the next day. this story is really open-minded and something that can really help children be the best they can be and realise the power of kindness.

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some activities and questions that could be used when studying and reading this book:

1) What would you do if you couldn't speak someone's language but wanted to be someone's friend, how would you communicate and make them feel welcome

2) Imagine you were the leader of a country, how would you help to solve some of the problems refugees are facing and have faced in the past, or how would you welcome refugees in a nice way.

3) While reading the book get the class to keep their own personalised reading journal to record their thoughts about the book, author, different viewpoints, literacy devices used and dialogue etc. At the end of this unit you could create a display of segments of the pupils reading journals.

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Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorgian 

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Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorgian 

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This story would be suitable for a year six class due to the mature themes in this book, much like the boy in the striped pyjamas, it would have to be for a class suitable for the story and its themes. Goodnight Mister Tom is a story about a child, Willie Beech who gets evacuated at the beginning of WW2 to a small countryside English town. Willie who is a lonely quiet boy gets homed with an old, reclusive widower, Thomas Oakley. Even though the two find it difficult to make a connection at first they gradually make a strong mutual bond and Willie begins to enjoy his new life in the Village. However when Willie gets sent back to London by his abusive and neglectful mother, Tom gets worried for the boy and goes in search of him, and doesn't like what he finds. This story is deeply moving and shows the bond between parent and child is not always biological and the most unlikely people can become great parents and caregivers. This is a great story for KS2 aged children which could also be linked cross-curriculum with history as this story is set in World War 2.

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Some activities and questions I think would work well with this book are:

1) A role play activity where the class get to dress up as evacuees and then write a diary entry about their feelings whilst being evacuated.

2) Get the pupils to write a letter to their family back at home and describe where they are living and the people looking after them.

3) Create a character profile for one of the characters in the book, focusing on their personality, how they treat other people and why, and get the pupils to draw a picture of their chosen character as an extension task.