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with children’s storybook Ranjit's Rainbow Tigers by Tracy Kewley
with illustrations by Jessica Knight
The topic of Traders opens up an exotic world, rich in stories, ideas and exploration and our story Ranjit’s Rainbow Tigers, leads the way.
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with children’s storybook Ranjit's Rainbow Tigers by Tracy Kewley
with illustrations by Jessica Knight
The topic of Traders opens up an exotic world, rich in stories, ideas and exploration and our story Ranjit’s Rainbow Tigers, leads the way.
These How the platypus got his shape prompts come with keyword phrases from the story and are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
These How the platypus got his shape prompts come with keywords from the story and are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
Talk about the life cycles of the creatures in A Grub’s Tale.
The intriguing story of growing vanilla in Madagascar is a very tasty subject for study and is the perfect springboard for looking at pollination.
No slideshow could do justice to the treasure of creatures that live on the island of Madagascar but these beautiful images are a great starting point for further investigation.
Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards will help start children off on their voyage of discovery of Malagasy animals. Use on the whiteboard or on tablet computers.
Also available with or without text and images and also as a blank printable template.
The Vanilla Princess is a Mayan tale about the story of the creation of the vanilla plant.
The official language in Madagascar is French. Here are some useful phrases to use if you are devising a French puppet show.
Work out how much leaf our little grub has left at the end of the day with some simple addition and subtraction of fractions.
Cut out and make some reveal-and-learn French picture cards for all of the animals in A Grub's Tale.
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We look at some of the life cycles of the animals in our story A Grub’s Tale.
Meet our little grub on his journey to becoming a Moon Moth. Along the way, he meets lots of Madagascan jungle animals and learns about patience and self-belief too.
At the age of 12, a slave boy, on the island of Madagascar discovered a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably – read his story.
The creature in our story, The Grub’s Tale, goes through the life cycle of a Madagascan Moon Moth. Starting scientific investigations with a story contextualises learning and can provide a good introduction to tricky concept for young children.
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You can use The Christmas Wish ebook on your whiteboard, iPad or tablet computer.
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Our assembly closing thought helps us look at the different aspects of snow.
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Our downloadable snow fact cards will help start children off on their voyage of discovery.
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Our downloadable snow fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our downloadable snow fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.
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Use this resource for highlighting geographical language. For printing or using on your whiteboard.
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Let the children demonstrate how well they’ve understood The Christmas Wish with these comprehension questions.
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Use this table to work out how much snow has fallen at a given time.
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Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of The Christmas Wish in the correct order.
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Take a look at the techniques that Clare Bevan used when writing The Christmas Wish.
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Use this sheet to help children get to grips with sequencing in maths.
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Our downloadable snow fact cards are ready for children to add their own illustrations. Print out or use on tablet computers.
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Help children plan and write their own versions of The Christmas Wish using these storyboarding templates or get them to map the story following a
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Print-friendly The Christmas Wish: Poems and raps perfect hand-outs for learning off by heart.
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Let children's imaginations run riot with this activity that's perfect for discussing where ideas come from.
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Give the children time to think about what their Christmas wish would be.
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A perfect snowy game for reinforcing concepts of shape and size while exercising a bit of creativity along the way.
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A perfect snowy game for reinforcing concepts of shape and size while exercising a bit of creativity along the way.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The Christmas wish are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come without text and keywords.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The Christmas Wish are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for The Christmas Wish are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keyword phrases from the story.
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Use the templates provided to create a board game based on the story of The Christmas Wish.
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The ‘Story sounds PDF slideshow’ includes some of the sounds that might feature in a stage show of The Christmas Wish.
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Use these images of the front and back cover of The Christmas Wish in conjunction with the ‘Explore the story’ lesson in the Snow topic.
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Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with our The Christmas Wish themed certificate.
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Reward your KS2 storytellers with our The Christmas Wish themed certificate.
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Use these text-only resource sheets to explore the language of The Christmas Wish and examine some of the author’s writing techniques.
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Help the children to understand the story structure by asking them to create a story map for The Christmas Wish.
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Hear a slightly longer version of Captain Scott's wife being interviewed. This gives a taste of what it would have been like back in Great
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Our podcast for the Snow topic sees the wife of Captain Scott being interviewed and gives a taste of what it would have been
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These edited extracts are a challenging read and make for pretty grim reading but they could be tackled by older children with adult support.
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Use this text-only ebook to explore the language of The Christmas Wish and examine some of the author’s writing techniques.
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Use this game as a fun way to recall what children have learned about Captain Scott.
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Catch Clare Bevan's rhythm and rhyme bug with these perky poems. Perfect for chanting aloud, learning off by heart and as inspiration for the children's
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Ask the children to critique the storytellers in their class and give each one two things that they thought were great and one thing they
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Perfect for your Christmas production or scaled-down class assembly production, our editable playscript can be adapted for as few or as many children or you need
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A step-by-step guide to using The Christmas Wish .kmz file in Google Earth™.
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Get a goose-eye view with ‘The Christmas Wish Google Earth™ tour file’.
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Hone those colouring, cutting and sticking skills with these alphabet and festive symbol paper chains.
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Talk through the events in The Christmas Wish using this story map.
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