The Sheep Pig T4R by

miles_kemp — 2025-06-05 06:40:48 UTC

Write a postcard from the point of view of one of the characters to their family.

miles_kemp — 2025-06-05 07:09:06 UTC

Act out one of your favourite parts of the text. Use dialogue from the text to give characters life. Create movement that matches the event.

miles_kemp — 2025-06-05 07:41:36 UTC

Create a word cloud. Choose 20 words that summarise the main characters, setting and events from the text.

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Scavenger hunt

2025-06-09 13:33:38 UTC

Students search the text for specific word types featured. For example, highlighting all the nouns/adjectives/verbs (a different colour for each word type) in a chapter

Author study flipbook

2025-06-09 13:47:16 UTC

Students do an inquiry into the text's author, focusing on the author's life, books and their impact on the literary world, and what makes their books loved by people. They then present this as a flipbook reflecting on the author's writing

E.g. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Roald-Dahl-Day-Flipbook-Grades-3-6-4035387

Book review

2025-06-09 14:04:40 UTC

Students do a review of the text read. They can write a summary (or just a simple plotline) of the book, give it a star rating and justify their choice, give it a recommendation for other Year 3 students, note and describe the main characters etc.

Character Hot Seat

callumquinn — 2025-06-10 07:13:06 UTC

Used for any part of the book and any book.

Students will be given a character where they will need to answer the questions proposed by the class in the mindset and personality of the character given to them.

This can be used to discuss perspectives and different points of view of characters and how they would react to particular questions asked about them

Making Connections - chapter 4

2025-06-10 07:13:46 UTC

Text to text (another story about a pig, with a pig main character)

Text to Self (difficulty learning a new skill - Babe herding ducks)

P.O.V - chapter 5

2025-06-10 07:15:34 UTC

diary entry from Babe’s p.o.v

describing the lead up to sneaking out to visit sheep
describing the event of finding sheep being stolen in the field

Your Farm

2025-06-10 07:15:54 UTC

In chapter 1 we learn Farmer Hogget doesn’t have pigs on his farm, he has sheep instead. Plan and design your own farm. Write down which animals and crops you would keep.

Persuasive Text (paragraph)

2025-06-10 07:17:57 UTC

Should babe be allowed to learn? List three strong points to support your opinion.

Sheep-dog Research

2025-06-10 07:18:37 UTC

Students use the internet to research what a sheep-dog is.

Text Sequencer

callumquinn — 2025-06-10 07:18:46 UTC

Used for any chapter where students will be given an event that occurred in the chapter. Students can complete this in their groups and will need to arrange themselves in the correct order and each person re-tells what happened in their event, before and after their event to the class.

Students can be in pairs depending how confident they are.

Point of View - chapter 6

2025-06-10 07:18:47 UTC

describe character relationships (Fly & sheep, Fly & Babe, Farmer Hogget & Babe, Mrs Hogget & Babe)
Make comparisons of relationships
Compare p.o.v rewrite samples - from 3rd person in text to 1st person (different perspectives on herding the sheep)

First impressions to now

2025-06-10 07:20:47 UTC

The main characters, how were they first introduced in to the story. Use a T-chart. Then after a few chapters what are your impressions of them now.