Literacy Time PLUS Ages 9 to 11: Literacy Time PLUS Ages 9 to 11 November 2008

Years 5 and 6, NOVEMBER 2008

The latest issue of LITERACY TIME PLUS includes:

• Space Dictionary Game – An interactive, ‘Call My Bluff’ style game in which players must choose the correct definition for 30 words associated with the topic of Space
• Travelling to a new world – Navigate this on-screen text and learn about life on board the space ark, ‘Perseus’. Pictures, sounds and text combine to inspire a range of creative writing ideas.
• The Star Beast – An extract from the classic science-fiction short story by Nicholas Stuart Gray
• Are we alone? – David Clayton examines the evidence for and against extra-terrestrial life
• Classic Poetry: The Moon by Emily Dickinson – A classic poem featuring simile and metaphor – plus click on the moons in the interactive poster to reveal hidden information screens
• The Ashton Family Space Log – The journal of a family on board a space ark

These are accompanied by the 16 page Teachers’ Notes magazine:

Next issue January 2009 (published in January):

• Victorian workhouse resources – Including extracts from Berlie Doherty’s novel and play script version of ‘Street Child’
• Interactive resource: Life in the workhouse – David Clayton looks at what life was really like in the workhouse in this interactive resource
• Orders for the Poor in Doncaster workhouse – This pre-1834 document lays out the rules and weekly menu for inhabitants of the workhouse
• Robert Burns poem – To commemorate Burns’ 250th anniversary, one of his classic poems ‘Address to Edinburgh’