Literacy Time PLUS Ages 9 to 11: Literacy Time PLUS Ages 9 to 11 May 2009

Where it all began – A narrative and non-fiction text looking at the same event: how human life began.
The White Giraffe by Lauren St John – An enticing extract from this Africa-based story.
This is Africa – Find out why Africa lies at the heart of our planet in this information poster.
Nelson Mandela – Biographical text exploring the life of Nelson Mandela.
Traditional tales – Teresa Saunders retells four ancient fables based in the animal world.
Paul Cookson Performance Poetry Workshop Part 3 – In this final episode of our three-part performance poetry workshop, Paul works with a Year 5/6 class to create a hilarious poem about parents.

These are accompanied by the 24-page Teachers’ Notes magazine:

Lesson plans and teaching ideas for each poster and reading leaflet.

Differentiated photocopiable worksheets including SAT-style assessment tests.

New Literacy Objectives – Teaching links to the new Primary Framework for Literacy are all mapped out for you.

Free Downloadable Pages – All the photocopiable pages and objectives charts can be downloaded, as well as great extra material such as Author profiles.

Scottish and Northern Ireland literacy objectives are featured as online planning charts.

Next issue July 2009 (published in July):

Resources on a Literacy and ICT theme – Including an audio-visual resource to encourage descriptive and creative story writing
Do as you are told – A Paul Cookson poem presented as a comic strip by Beano artist David Parkins
The Roar – An extract from this science-fiction adventure novel by Emma Clayton
How to tell tales Part 1: Characterisation – The first part of our six-part story writing workshop by Literacy Time PLUS Writer-in-residence, Antony Lishak.