The Great Kapok Tree (English Planning and Resources)

This is a complete planning and resources for the book, The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. Over 90 slides (PowerPoint and PDF version). Aimed at KS1 and LKS2.

Slide 2: The Great Kapok Tree blurb.
Slide 4: Lesson 1 – What do you already know
Slide 12: Lesson 2 - Forming a discussion / bullet pointing facts / gathering information
Slide 28: Lesson 3 - Introduction to our book – using imagination and inference
Slide 30: Lesson 4 - Using learnt information – extending learning using imagination and inference
Slide 32: Lesson 5 - Using onomatopoeia
Slide 35: Lesson 6 - Creating a fact file
Slide 38: Lesson 7 – Alliteration
Slide 43: Lesson 8 – Collective nouns
Slide 46: Lesson 9 - Prepositions and direction
Slide 52: Lesson 10 - Design your own rainforest animal
Slide 56: Lesson 11 – Reading comprehension
Slide 61: Lesson 12 - Why are plants important? (research)
Slide 64: Lesson 13 - Five ways I can help our Earth (using my learning) – recap rainforest lesson 2 (trees)
Slide 68: Lesson 14 - Testing you environmental awareness & completing surveys (using my learning)
Slide 70: Lesson 15 - Other cultures fact file
Slide 80: Lesson 16 – Rainforest riddles
Slide 84: Lesson 17 - Using descriptive vocabulary and my senses
Slide 89: Lesson 18 - The Great Kapok Tree story recount
Slide 92: Lesson 19 - What did the man do? (inference – story paragraph)