stone age boy satoshi kitamura Planning Year 4 Literacy

Some nice simple planning for this excellent book. Plus some other bobs and bits.

example:
WALT: Prepare a short drama performance.
Display an image of a cave on IWB. Hand out a post-it note to each child and ask them to write a sentence on it to describe one of the caves. Once they have finished, they should swap their post-it with a partner and try to edit or improve their partner’s sentence.

Enlarge the illustration from pages 24-25 of Stone Age Boy. Ask the children to imagine how the boy feels as he enters the cave. Arrange children into an ‘alley’, with the children each facing a partner in a long line to make a corridor. Ask for a volunteer to be
the boy and allow each child to say what he might be
thinking as he walks past them down the middle of the cave corridor. Mixed Ability Groups:
Ask children to work in groups to role play the boy and Om walking through the cave. They should prepare a short drama of this part of the story and they need to include a ‘narrator’, whose role it is to explain what the boy is thinking and feeling. Prompt children to use the
thesaurus skills they worked on earlier in the week to find interesting words to include in their drama. Take time to perform some of the dramas. Ask for feedback from the other children
including what went well and what could be improved.