Activities for Philip Pullman’s Clockwork or All Wound Up. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension. The Clockwork/ All Wound Up book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter - no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Activities for every chapter of David Walliam’s Ratburger. Visible Thinking, Drama, Creative Writing and Reading Comprehension activities. The Ratburger book study teaches students how to understand reading comprehension through VIPERS - vocabulary, inferences, predictions, explanations, retrieval and summaries. Activities for every chapter -no printing required. Suitable for a range of class sizes - from individual students to large classes. File includes ppt. and pdf versions of the book study.

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Betsy Byars’ Midnight Fox Book Study is ideal as a unit of work when the students are reading the fantastic book and as a Book Week case study. The pages of this presentation are dedicated to chapters of the book so you can have visuals on the board as the students read along, followed by clear thinking exercises and instructions for writing, drawing and group work activities. The download includes both Active Inspire and PDF versions. Each version contains 15 activities over 29 pages. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. An excellent multi-skilled approached to studying a classic children’s text, this book study provides activities for the exploration and development of key and supplementary reading skills: Predicting Comprehending Inferring Summarising Creative Writing Drawing Drama Ideal as a book week book study. Slides can be followed as a book study lesson plan. This book study contains over 30 activities in pdf and Powerpoint formats - allowing for easy amendment to the activities. Ideal as a Iron Man Key Stage 2 book study - I have used this resource with Year 3, 4 and 5 students/ 7, 8, 9 and 10-year olds. Similar book study resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Billionaire Boy Book Study This David Walliams’ book is great to use for group reading, guided reading, book study sessions. 124 pages of almost 100 reading comprehension activities. Inspired in the classroom, I created this PowerPoint to provide my students with opportunities to explore every chapter. Each chapter’s activities includes vocabulary and summarising activities, as well as a range of predicting, inferring, retrieving, creative writing and short drama activities. I have also updated a PDF version of the slides in this file.

Book study activities for ‘Toro! Toro!’ by Michael Morpurgo. This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, visible thinking and discussion activities. Ideal for an English class book study or Book Week activities. This book study has also been delivered during online learning as guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. The book study comes in both ppt and pdf files. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430

Ideal for students who are studying Aesop's fables or animals in fables (The Dog and the Bone, The Ant and the Grasshopper, the Hare and the Tortoise). Students are encouraged to think about animals' characteristics in stories, legends and fables and develop critical thinking skills by applying their own understanding and ideas.

Fantastic Mr Fox book study - great for whole class guided reading, small group guided reading, book studies and for framing numerous activities including visible thinking and thinking keys. Book study comes as both PowerPoint and PDF. This Fantastic Mr Fox book study has been designed with learners in mind. Learning is engaging, fun and varied. Following best practice, this book study contains: Listening frames for each of the chapters Visible Thinking routines - including See, Think, Wonder, Four Perspectives and Colour, Symbol, Image and many more… Thinking Keys - including BAR (Bigger Add Remove), Variations and What If? Drama Activities Creative Writing/ Drawing VIPERS - comprehension is framed around Vocabulary, Infer, Predictions, Explanations, Retrieval and Summarising Infer-cabulary - encourage students to infer the meaning of new and unknown words Author is a Deputy Head with 12+ years of National Curriculum experience.

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Ideal for Book Week or when reading Kensuke’s Kingdom as a class. Resource is provided in 3 file types: Word, PDF and flipchart. This comprehensive book study contains more than 15 activities and dozens of comprehension questions. Also provides students with the opportunity to stop at intervals to discuss and think about the text so far. Activities include: newspaper article writing, poetry, group discussion, illustration work, persuasive writing and information writing among many others. This resource will work in English class as a lesson strand or as a stand alone book study. Similar book study resources: The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685 Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) Maths and Geography Activities https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/around-the-world-in-80-days-activities-11187960 Percy Fawcett presentation (used after The Lost World and The Great Kapok Tree book studies) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/percy-fawcett-presentation-11477430 Book Week lesson plan. Book Week activities. Kensuke’s Kingdom activities. Kensuke’s Kingdom lesson plan.

Students respond to the Dog and the Bone fable with an independently written character sketch. Ideal as a fables homework or worksheet.

Creative thinking and character assessment of Robin Hood worksheet. User is required to complete speech for Robin Hood and Prince John. Ideal if studying Robin Hood or different perspectives. Can be used as Robin Hood activity or Robin Hood homework.

This is an Aesop's fables writing and creative thinking exercise in which students are encouraged to think about animal characteristics in fables. Ideally used if students are studying Aesop's fables.

Looking for activities to compliment your Earth Day celebrations. Eight acrostic poem writing frames with additional 'hands around the world' creative and displayable poster. Files are editable so you can create your own writing frames.

Students respond to the famous Dog and the Bone fable by writing a character sketch. Contains extension challenge for the higher ability students. Includes the story text. Ideal as a fables homework or worksheet.

I created this resource when I realised that several of my students struggled to infer when reading. This is an independent activity in my Guided Reading carousel. Some minor input from me on the difference between comprehending and inferring was all the children needed before getting started. I encourage the students to find more ‘infer’ answers than ‘comprehended’ answers. What I love about this activity is that it has allowed my students to develop their inferential skills when reading worded texts, as well as analysing pictures. The absence of words means it is ideal for numerous reading abilities. This reading inferential resource contains 25 activities. This is great as part of a Guided Reading session or carousel of activities, it could also be used as a lesson starter, morning activity or library session activity.

Peer review is an excellent end of lesson plenary activity for writing lessons. In my class I have these posters doubled-sided-printed and laminated and readily available around the room as well as featuring on my English display board. The first two students to have adequately finished their work then peer review each others' by offering a compliment, suggestion and correction. Having completed the activity a couple of times the students really understand what makes constructive feedback (the guidance also helps with this). A great writing plenary.

Ideal for online learning and teaching/ distance learning and teaching. Online/ distance reading and guided reading lessons. The teacher can divide the slides/ chapters into required lessons and send to students or present via live learning platform. Ideal for Book Week or when reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr as a class. This comprehensive book study contains more than 20 creative writing, drama, poetry, drawing and discussion activities. This resource will work in English class as a lesson strand or as a stand-alone book study. Book Week lesson plan. Book Week activities. Similar book study resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/kensuke-s-kingdom-book-study-11187992 Billionaire Boy (David Walliams) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/billionaire-boy-book-study-12323752 The Iron Man (Ted Hughes) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-iron-man-ted-hughes-book-study-12232610 Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) book study https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/betsy-byars-midnight-fox-book-study-11475685