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Robyn Carruthers: My academic reading Padlet

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Robyn Carruthers: My academic reading Padlet

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Please enjoy!

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Tasks and activities.

- Get a tray of used crayons. Have a class discussion about why some crayons are shorter than others? Which crayons are the most popular? Which crayon is hardly used? Choose a crayon, what would you draw/colour with it? Would that make the crayon happy? Why?
- In pairs/threes, give students a letter off one of the crayons, then ask questions such as; How does the crayon feel? What could you do to make the crayon happy?
- Students to write a new letter impersonating an everyday item that has decided to quit. (Group write).

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Tasks and activities.

- Make sensible and informed predictions based on the cover and some of the illustrations of the book. This could be by doing a class mind map on the board and gathering ideas from all students.
- Using the roll on the wall, explore the Iron Man's character.
-Discuss the destruction of the environment, through human-induced changes to nature and how we can make a change.

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- A whole class write of an informal letter, discussing what informal means? What is the difference between formal and informal?
- What adventure would stop you coming to school. Class answers recorded on flip board. Then to write a letter to the teacher explaining why they cannot come to school using ideas from the board.
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- Gangsta Granny is an alliteration, get students to make up their own book title using an alliteration e.g. Moaning Mum. Then ask if they can write a story based on that title.
- Pick a character for example Mr Parker and imagine you are him. Could you write a set of Neighbourhood Watch rules to help keep everyone safe?
- There is the audio version of the book. Could the class make their own audio recording of the book?

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Tasks and activities.

- Create a story map by having the students draw the main parts of the story. Get students to put the pictures in order to make the sequence of the story.
- Ask students if they were the caterpillar what different fruits/foods would they eat? Are they healthy choices? you can link this to healthy eating.
- Do a group read to help re-enforce the days of the week. Use actions as you read the book e.g. 'Caterpillar, wiggle arms to look like a caterpillar.

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-Create an immersive experience for students to get them engaged and intrigued by creating an underwater environment. To do this you could; put blue crepe paper over the windows to block out the light and create a blue cast on the classroom, have toy fish and sea creatures as a tactile element, have a bubble machine, have clear/white balloons to represent bubbles. Then have words set out such as wonder, dream, fly, experiment. Next, to elicit the students ideas, ask them questions that encourage them to make links between the environment and the vocabulary.

-Do a predictive write with the students based on the immersive activity and looking at the book cover. You could model this by doing a group write or mind-map on the board, capturing students ideas as well as unanswered questions.

-Give students the lyrics to Calypso by John Denver, play the song and read through the lyrics together. Enlarge the lyrics on the board and ask for comments about the song. Prompts could be, what is this song about? What is Calypso?.

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I think this would be great for a guided whole class read. Teacher to lead with the reading while students follow along with actions.

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Oracy based lesson, whole class read. Ask students to discuss one of the letters in pairs and try and ask them to relate to their own thoughts and feelings. Answers can be recorded in their book.

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I would have this as an independent read, focusing on a number of pages per lesson. You could then use part of the lesson extracting the rage of students perceptions to create class discussions.

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A whole class read aloud would be ideal for this book. Assigning so many paragraphs per student to keep the whole class engaged.

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I would use this as a whole class read aloud. I think it is ideal for students to be able to read a different letter each. This can be nicely linked into emotional literacy work within class and understanding others emotions.

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Guided read via the teacher for this book with either students sitting at tables listening or all gathered around on the carpet/reading area. This book has unfolding pages and beautiful illustrations so would be idea if students were closer.

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This would be used in a lower KS1 class as it is a lovely book to help learn days of the week and discuss food choices.

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I would read this with key stage two due to the underlying environmental messages that could be discussed further with KS2.

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This could be used across both key stage 1 and 2 depending on the unit of work.
I would however use this with upper KS1. You can discuss the difference between formal and informal letters and do guided writes to demonstrate both.

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This book could be read with Upper KS2, ages 9 and up.
It has comical themes throughout which is aimed more towards the older readers.

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This book can be used across key stages 1 and 2 depending on the tasks set and depth of talk. I have just used this in my KS2 class and have discussed the crayons emotions and talked about empathy and how to help others.
This could be pushed out further into helping students write their own letters and discussing how letters are laid out and you could discuss the difference between formal and informal letter writing.

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This book along with the activities is for ages 8 and up. This can start at lower KS2 going up to upper KS2. You can deeper explore this Biography of Jacques Cousteau and bring in the effects of climate change and global warming including sea pollution.

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Synopsis.
This book is about the crayons Duncan uses. They are not happy with how they are used so decide to go on strike and write letters as to why they're not happy. Duncan resolves the issues by using every crayon exactly how they wished.

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Ben is staying with his granny who he finds rather boring, until he finds out she used to be a jewel thief. They decide to join hands to steal the crown jewels, all whilst his parents are away ballroom dancing.

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Out of nowhere a giant metal robot crashes into earth and shatters into loads of pieces. Hogarth discovers The Iron Man and helps him as he eats through farm machinery in attempt to find the rest of his body.

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Once the very hungry caterpillar has hatched he tried to eat everything in sight from sweets to junk food. After six days of eating too much unhealthy foods, he finally eats a leaf on the seventh day and feels much better.

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Michael decides he cannot make it to school this term and writes to his teacher with an array of letters explaining his unlikely adventures and reasons why he will not be attending.

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KS2

Synopsis.
This is the story of Jacques Cousteau who dreamed about being beneath the sea, swimming gracefully like a fish. He grew up to be one of the best-known oceanographers in the world.