(a) Choose an exciting scene from Bad Dad and rewrite it into a play script. Then act it out with your friends. (b) Write your play script here.

(a) A 16-word word search (b) Answers

(a) Create a fact file on Banger Racing. Use information from the story, research from the Internet or library books as well as your own imagination. When you have made your fact file, you could use the information to make a leaflet, a website or a presentation to teach others about Banger Racing. (b) Plan and research your fact file here:

Our planet is an amazing place. It is important that we take care of it. Design a guide leaflet to inform other people about how they can take care of planet Earth. Fold this template into three to make a trifold leaflet for your guide.

1. People are all different, but all people have feelings. Being kind to others is very important. But what does being kind mean and what does it look like? 2. NAMES OF CHILDREN IN THE CLASS & SOMETHING KIND TO SAY ABOUT EACH PERSON. 3. Kindness Poster

Taking inspiration from OliverJeffers' picture book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, a group activity on human survival. Children are encouraged to think about the items they NEED to live on Planet Earth and the items they WANT, helping them distinguish between the two.

WELCOME TO EARTH Design a poster to welcome someone to planet Earth. Make it bright, colourful and packed full of useful information.

A constellation is a group of stars that make an imaginary shape in the night sky. In different parts of the world, people have made up different shapes out of the same group of stars. It is like a game of connecting the dots. They are often named after mythological characters, people, animals and objects.

Research and answer the questions in the boxes. You could work by yourself or with a group. Then choose one of the boxes and create a short presentation that you could show the class.

There are roughly 10,000 stars that are visible to our human eyes. However, only a few hundred stars have been given proper names in the history of astronomy. Play a guessing game with a friend. Look at all the words in the grid. Can you guess which ones are the names of star constellations? Draw a star next to the names you think will be the true constellation names. Then research each name and tick off the correct answers. The winner is the person who guessed the most correct answers.

Colour in Tiger and Sophie.

Who would you most like to visit you at teatime? Have you ever wanted your favourite animal to ring the doorbell? Is there a person you've always wanted to meet? Or would your favourite visitor just be your best friend? Draw your favourite teatime guest in the space below.

A dot-to-dot activity for KS1 and KS2: Join the dots to find Tiger.

A 10 x 10 letter wordsearch to find the words: Tea, Tiger, Sophie, Mummy, Daddy, Buns, Sandwiches

Here is some more developed thinking about what can be found in a mystery story (some of these points may overlap with your earlier ideas). a) Tick any number of the ones you agree with and add more to the list if you can. b) With support from the points on the previous page, use the following line, taken from ‘Ivy and Scarlet, The Lost Twin’, to open your own mystery writing scene. Then in no more than 500 words either produce an entirely new opening to a story or a scene from the middle of a story.

Either: Write your own diary extracts, written in a chatty informal style using the first person ‘I’, based on some of your own school highlights – you plan to hide this secret diary hidden in a disused locker knowing it will not be found for many years. Or: Write some extracts of Scarlet’s diary written at Rosemoor Asylum for Young females. To help set a sense of place if you are writing as Scarlet (80 years ago) as a prisoner in an Asylum, look at the rough map Scarlet could have managed to draw based on what she can see from her tiny room, other rooms she has been taken to and sounds that she could have heard.

With a partner work on the graph below: 1. To begin this work you first of all need to discuss how you both feel about Ivy and Scarlet in each of the situations taken from the novel that are presented in the boxes. 2. Looking at your result do you empathise with one of the twins more than the other? Why do you think that is?

Making deductions, reading between the lines, about the main characters. As you read the novel try to add more details to the two columns on Scarlet and the two columns about Ivy.

Thinking about the sense of place, work with a partner to complete this task. a) Does the writer want us to like or dislike the place? Give a reason for your response. b) Why does the writer want the reader to recognise: the size of the place? What words or phrases do you think emphasise this?

Think about mystery stories and poems that you have already read or listened to and films with elements of mystery that you have watched. What ingredients (features) do you expect to find in the mystery story that you are about to read? Put your ideas in the text boxes below. Add more boxes if you need to. When finished compare your ideas with a partner.