pdf, 14.09 MB
pdf, 14.09 MB

This is a literacy resource I created based on the book “Silly Billy” by Anthony Browne. I used this book as part of a larger author study on Anthony Browne.

I have found “Silly Billy” to be a really useful text in both a literacy context and also for students who may experience anxiety. It teaches students that worrying is ok, and encourages solutions to solving problems.

This is very comprehensive, cross-curricular resource which covers reading goals, as well as writing, speaking and listening, grammar, independent literacy skills, visual literacy, comprehension and wellbeing.

The unit is presented as a PDF slideshow with all resources included. Resource includes:

  • a background to the unit

  • outcomes

  • discussion prompts to allow students to “tune-in” to the book

  • shared reading component with step-by- step comprehension questions focussing on visual literacy, inferential and literal comprehension as well as students connection to text

  • a background to the history of worry dolls and their development in Guatemala

  • tips for dealing with worries for students experiencing anxiety

  • grammar focus on similes and metaphors

  • ten literacy centre tasks designed to consolidate student understanding of the text and build engagement with reading.

The unit of work is presented in a PDF so that formatting does not change with uploading.

Happy Reading!

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Anthony Browne MEGA bundle - 6 books - NO PREP - Visual Literacy - Comp.

This is a mega-bundle of six books by Anthony Browne. The books included are: * Voices in the Park * Gorilla * Zoo * Piggybook * Through the Magic Mirror * Silly Billy The focus of the book units is shared reading. The units of work were designed around shared reading sessions and, in particular, accessing student's visual literacy skills. The larger units of work are "Voices in the Park", "Gorilla", "Silly Billy" and "Zoo", which all contain literature circle task cards, linked Creative Arts activities, step-by-step shared reading guides and much more. I love using the work of Anthony Browne in my classroom, and my students thoroughly enjoyed these units of work, particularly the consolidation tasks with Creative Arts integrated throughout. This is the equivalent to WEEKS of literacy teaching and learning - we spent ten weeks in total looking at the work of Anthony Browne using these resources. Whilst I teach in an Australian context, these books are not linked to specific Australian content and would be well-suited to any English speaking classroom. Spelling and grammar are UK/Australian. I used these books in a Year 3/4 classroom but they would equally be suitable for older children. PLEASE NOTE: These resources were all genuinely created in real-time for my classes over the last two years. As a result, the units of work differ in content and structure. Please use the individual prices as an indication of the resources included (or simply look at the individual products). For example, Voices in the Park is a very comprehensive unit as we used this book for several weeks. It contains mini-lessons, literature circle task cards, printables, assessments and shared reading lessons. The "Piggybook" resource, on the other hand, is very simple because we only used this for shared reading without integrated resources. If you enjoy this resource, please consider leaving lovely feedback. It really helps little seller-mums like me out (and this will give you a great discount to use on future resources). Feel free to check out all the other Literacy resources in my store. Happy reading!

£23.00

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