Year 3/4 - Pebble in my Pocket by Meredith Hooper - 3 Week English Unit

Key Details:
Year 3/4 - Pebble in my Pocket by Meredith Hooper - 3 Week English Unit

• 3 Week English Unit
• Contains Notebook IWB Slides, Models, Scaffolds for SEN, Activities, Resources.
• Based on Power of Reading Scheme

This information book does what all information books should do: excite the reader’s interest, curiosity and sense of wonder where none may have existed. Meredith Hooper, an award winning science writer, brings her expertise and storytelling skills to the subject of the Earth’s history, beginning with the contemplation of a pebble and a question. The absorbing text and illustrations take the reader through the 480 million years of the pebble’s journey, from the spectacular furnace of volcanic eruptions to the cool seashore and the grassy field.

There’s a useful timeline at the back of the book to help children grasp the enormity of geological time and the very recent appearance of humans in that story of the planet.

Overall aims of this teaching sequence:
● To explore an information book in depth
● To explore themes and issues, and develop and sustain ideas through discussion
● To use creative responses to the text through drama, storytelling and artwork
● To develop creative responses to the text
● To write with confidence for real purposes and audiences