Tons of ideas to stimulate kids to read. Plenty of short snappy ideas. The zip file has over a dozen documents. Sample ideas Write a letter as a character in your book to either another character in your book, a new invented character or a real-life character. Write a letter from yourself to a character in your book. Write a letter to the author of your book – you could say what you like or dislike about the book, or give ideas for what else you would like included in the book. Have a go at drawing a map of one of the places in the story. See how much you can include and how much detail you can add. Pretend you are a travel agent and want people to visit the place in the story. Write a paragraph on what you would tell others. Re-tell an event from the story from another characters point of view. For example, if Jenny is visiting a haunted castle with her wimpy brother Joe, can you change it from Jenny’s point of view to Joe’s? Re-tell an event from the story as if you are a newspaper reporter and you are writing a newspaper article. Imagine you could interview a character in your story – what would you ask them? What would their replies be? Write your interview with your character. Set it out so you use 2 different colours for your questions and your character’s answers. Write the diary entry (or several) for a character in your story after something interesting has happened. Have a go at writing a second diary entry for a different character. Have a go at continuing the story after the end of the book. What might happen next? Change the story by changing the actions of one of the characters. Maybe they do something different when it’s a big event, that changes everything! Change the story into a very simple version for young children and illustrate it too. Change the story (or part of it) into a comic strip. Change the story (or part of it) into a poem. Change the story (or part of it) into a play. Create a passport or ID card for your character. Draw a picture of a character from the story. Make sure you use all the detail that the book gives you. Draw a picture of a place in your story. Make sure you use all the detail that the book gives you. Design a new blurb for the back cover of the book. You can use colours and pictures as well as writing. Redesign the front cover of the book. Design a poster to advertise your book. Think about it’s unique selling points – e.g. what is good about it. Design a radio advert to advertise your book… maybe you would read some of the exciting bits to the audience. Remember your audience can only listen, not see what you’re doing. Write about what a character might be thinking or feeling at different stages of the story. You could write it in the first person, or in a speech bubble.

8 powerpoints 12 word documents Looks at the Greek Myths. Example : WALT: box up the labours of Heracles looking at details of setting, obstacles, proof of time, how obstacle was overcome for each event You need to draw or write brief notes about the setting of each event, about the obstacles that had to be overcome, the words used by the writer to show the passage of time and how the obstacle was overcome. Remember to think about the senses (what could be seen, heard, smelt, touched or felt) to describe the setting. Event 1: Setting Event 1: Obstacle

A great deal of planning on Fiction. Loads of great powerpoints and word documents. Sample: Introduce the words ‘fiction’ and ‘genre’. TTYP and discuss the meaning of the word ‘genre’. At this point, introduce the new and improved writing journals where children can make notes during lessons, can jot down words they wish to magpie, jot words that they have generated but which aren’t suitable for the task in hand and can jot questions/things they are unsure about. Explain that I will prompt to use these for the first couple of days but then children need to become more independent. Prizes for most effective use! Ensure the children understand the difference between fiction ‘narrative’ and non fiction ‘non narrative’. Activity One Come back together and do class mind map for working wall. Ask children to think of any titles of books which could fit with any of these genres. Ask children to discuss their preferences and discuss our preferences with them. Activity Two Talk about how they sorted the books in activity two. What clues were you looking for? Talk about words which suggest different genres. Explain activity three. Activity One In lit books complete quick mind map of different types of fiction genre. Activity Two Children to work in table groups. Children to be given a wide range of fiction books from class/school library. Children to sort the books into fantasy, historical, science fiction and mystery by scanning the book, looking at the front cover and reading the blurb. Activity Three Children to have a selection of pictures from books (front covers and insides) and blurbs from a variety of fiction books. Ch to decide which genre they think they book comes from and justify their opinion by highlighting the key words or annotating the pictures. SEN: (Mrs Shephard & Mrs Maguire’s groups) to work as a group on this task. MA: In pairs. Miss Noble to work with ‘Quality Question Marks’ (both groups). HA: Independently. Plenary: What have we learned? What is narrative? Non narrative? What is a genre? Name some genres of narrative? What is your favourite? Why? Least favourite? Why? Does this link to visual literacy (i.e. do films and TV programs split into genres?)