Celebrating cool Connections with Children’s books by https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj en-us 2025-07-01 13:07:40 UTC 2025-07-05 04:40:46 UTC hello@padlet.com How to contribute gdh44d4w8t https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3507354163 Please add

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]]> 2025-07-01 13:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3507356154 Main gdh44d4w8t https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3509045989 What is the main story being told or depicted?

]]> 2025-07-03 02:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3509045989 Side gdh44d4w8t https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3509051128 What is the side story (or stories) happening on the sidelines or around the edges that may not necessarily involve the main characters?

]]> 2025-07-03 02:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3509051128 Hidden gdh44d4w8t https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3509052736 What is the hidden story – that is happening below the surface and isn’t being seen or heard.

]]> 2025-07-03 02:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3509052736 The Garden of Broken Things https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511000981 -ed suffix on past tense verbs


]]> 2025-07-05 04:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511000981 Neville’s Great Escape https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511001179 Onomatopoeia

Direct and indirect speech

]]> 2025-07-05 04:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511001179 One word and a bird, Stephen Michael King https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511001282 End pages are rich with vocabulary: words are presented with different fonts, sizes typography and on top of pictures that invite thinking about "why that word?" "why is it there?" "how could we group them?". Words include: question / think, rhinoceros, splash, up / down, walk / roll,

]]> 2025-07-05 04:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511001282 The Garden of Broken things https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511001703 S sound using s, ss and c

]]> 2025-07-05 04:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511001703 Timeless by Kelly Canby https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002028

Quote: ‘Time stands still’ But that turned out to be a complete waste of time.


  • Figurative and literal language

  • Play on words

  • Phrases with multiple meanings


]]> 2025-07-05 04:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002028 Frank’s Red Hat https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002064 CVC

(Hat, his, red, had, let)

]]> 2025-07-05 04:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002064 Another book about bears https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002217 Diverse use of adjectives

]]> 2025-07-05 04:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002217 Ready Rabbit by Fiona Roberton vlt2 https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002294 2025-07-05 04:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002294 The garden of broken things https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002360 Undergrowth, concealed, seized (adj)

]]> 2025-07-05 04:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002360 The garden of lost things https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002595 Simile and metaphor

]]> 2025-07-05 04:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002595 https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002641 Cathy Freeman - Heartbeat of the Land

Connecting her love of running to caring for the land.

Personification - The rocks cried out, the sky groaned, the mountains wailed.

Adjectives to describe the land.

Focus on her heartbeat as she ran - ba boom ba boom ba boom recognising land was sick but then full story people started to take notice of land and focus on it - planting… and the land came alive again reconnecting with the concept of a heartbeat - ba boom ba boom ba boom

]]> 2025-07-05 04:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002641 We live in a bus https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002843 2025-07-05 04:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002843 Neville’s Great Escape https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002858 Rich, descriptive language:

Intrigue, conveniently, lamented, utterly defeated)

]]> 2025-07-05 04:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002858 Eat my dust https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002884 Idioms - Eat my dust - "you can't keep up with me" or "I'm much faster than you!”


Rhyming


Syllables

]]> 2025-07-05 04:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002884 Ready Rabbit vlt2 https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002995 Explore the visual representations of emotions.

How we read the pictures

making connections

]]> 2025-07-05 04:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511002995 Wolfred https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511003080 Good rhyming play exploring

phonetics - lights, nights


]]> 2025-07-05 04:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511003080 One word and a bird, Stephen Michael King https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511003125 Invites curiosity: "what is the word going to be?; lots of repetition "I went searching for a word / a word like / nothing seemed to fit".


]]> 2025-07-05 04:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511003125 Eat my dust https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511003230 Word families


Compound words


Prefixes & suffixes



]]> 2025-07-05 04:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511003230 The Concrete Garden https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005048 Children from an apartment block draw with colourful chalk outdoors to create a concrete garden.

]]> 2025-07-05 04:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005048 Ready Rabbit https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005215 Rabbit attends a party with his friends

]]> 2025-07-05 04:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005215 Be bold and brave in unfamiliar situations. https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005371 2025-07-05 04:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005371 Everyone experiences different emotions throughout the day. Acknowledging these is key https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005794 2025-07-05 04:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005794 These long-loved things, Josh Pyke and Ronojoy Ghosh https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005940 The family of a woman with dementia spend time with her, telling her what they are doing "I show you photos" and what is happening to her now "you don't recognise" and what will happen in the future "I [will] hold your hand and remember".

]]> 2025-07-05 04:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511005940 Timeless https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511006319 About a boy named Emit looking for more time

]]> 2025-07-05 04:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511006319 Robbit the Job-Hopping Frog by Michael Gerard Bauer & Katrin Dreiling https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511006974 MAIN STORY- Robbit the frog hopped down from his log and went into town in pursuit of a job.


SIDE- society around him does not accept his talents as he tries each job. Fitting in.


HIDDEN-habits of mind- perseverance

]]> 2025-07-05 04:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511006974 Timeless https://padlet.com/gdh44d4w8t/vko5j72s3xbo3spj/wish/3511007581 Time is a precious commodity and it’s hard to find, keep, find, preserve

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