The Way Back Home, Oliver Jeffers - resource ideas - KS1 Year 1

Here are some resources I have used as part of a series of lessons looking at the story The Way Back Home, by Oliver Jeffers. We follow a creative curriculum and use the Talk for Writing (Pie Corbett) method as our basis for Literacy teaching.

I have included (in the order I taught it):

• Lesson planning for a series of lessons with differentiated objectives
• A ‘questions for the boy’ worksheet - we talked about how the story raised more Qs than it answered and looked at how to write a question. We made question word wands (I used Twinkl for the words) and looked at question marks. The children thought of a question, or some questions, for ‘the boy’
• A letter from ‘the boy’ - The boy wrote back! He challenged us to help us think of a way to fix his spacecraft.
• Instructions template
• Instructions wordmat - split into imperative verbs and nouns
• A settings Powerpoint, with adjectives