A comprehensive set of Key Stage 2 teaching resources to use with Boy Underwater by Adam Baron - named Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, June 2018.
Twenty-seven activities in all - one for each chapter of the book to facilitate classroom while reading the book together without having to wait to finish. Most chapters also have discussion points.
Curriculum links covered include:
- Understand what they read - asking and answering questions to improve their understanding
- Understand what they read - identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
- Understand what they read - discuss and evaluate how authors use language
- Understand what they read - drawing inferences such as character’s feelings, thoughts and motives
- Understand what they read - checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context
- Understand what they read - summarizing the main ideas, identifying key details to support
- Understand what they read - predicting what might happen from details supplied and implied
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading - identifying and discussing themes and conventions
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading - preparing poems and plays to read aloud and perform
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading - recommending books that they have read to their peers
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading - increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading - participate in discussions about books
- Maintain positive attitudes to reading - explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read
- Discuss and evaluate how authors use language
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