The Great Kapok Tree Reading and Writing

Persuasive writing – letter to persuade, create a poster for the rainforest conservation, emotive language, rhetorical questions and facts

Included are PPT slides, planning (14 lessons) and supporting resources for printing for each lesson.

Reading of The Great Kapok Tree with links to VIPERS.
Links to Rainforests in Geography and map skills.
Self-made resource aimed for year 3 and 4 children.

NC links:

listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and
reference books or textbooks
 reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of
purposes
identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
plan their writing by:
 discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to
understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
 discussing and recording ideas
organising paragraphs around a theme
evaluate and edit by:
 assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting
improvements
 proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors