Guided reading questions and tasks for ‘Baba Yaga’

Suited to KS2 or low ability Year 7. Looks at the conventions of a fairy tale, using Baba Yaga stories. Includes link to animated version of Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Fair. I used this as a build up to an assessment where students had to complete a fairy tale having been given an opening

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This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Tashi and the Baba Yaga by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble. This document contains six worksheets for students. In this book are two stories - Tashi and the Baba Yaga and Gone! This resource has a worksheet of comprehension questions for Tashi and the Baba Yaga and one worksheet of comprehension questions for Gone! There are also language and vocabulary activities plus a synonym puzzle. There is a teacher answer sheet for the puzzle. Each story has three worksheets. This allows teachers to split the book in half and do work for it over a couple of days. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

A full term project - Anywhere between 12-16 lessons. Students learn about illustration what a brief, client and audience are. What composition is What typography is Colour theory in book design. The project focuses on the slavic folk tale of “Baba Yaga” and inlcudes links to Youtube videos of the story. Students are tasked with creating a single page illustration from one line of the story. Their target audience is young children so a large focus is on how well students can adapt their design style to suit this age range. Materials needed: Pencils, worksheet, Watercolour paints (could be substituted for pens or pencils), tracing paper.

Read and compare Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne, and Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby by Alison Lurie, Francis Lincoln, and Baba Yaga by Tony Bradman using drama and story maps. Discuss joining sentences using or, and or but. Children write witch stories using story pegs to plan. Introduce some 'story language' and encourage interesting endings. Hamilton Group Reader, Why Not Me?, is used to build confidence in reading aloud.

KS2 SAT Buster Reading CGP ‘walkthroughs’ PowerPoints to accompany the CGP Reading workbook for the following texts Non-Fiction: Dare to Dance; 1950’s Drive In; Inside the World of Jam Fiction: Underground City; The Old Photograph; A Visit to Baba Yaga Poetry: Lost Dog; The Gentlemen in Grey; Kite Flight I used these to support my less able and on track children to prepare for their reading SATs. These power point breaks down the texts into paragraphs, challenges them to develop their vocabulary and dictionary skills and goes through each question one at a time, highlighting where the answer is taken from. Best used in a whole class setting where every child has their own SAT buster book to write their answers in. Each of these PowerPoints was used for a guided reading session of 30 minutes and took two or three days to complete.

18 lessons for a Modern Fairy tales unit, where students work to write their own modern fairy tale. Each lesson is fully planned and there is a covering slide for teacher reference at the beginning, detailing reading and writing skills covered in the lesson and whether any resources are required. Each lesson has a learning objective and there are several homework tasks included within the unit. Lessons include exploring the structure of fairy tales, characterisation, persuasive speaking and listening to defend the Wolf from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, and advising fairy tale characters. Originally delivered to Year 7. Whilst the unit details Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening APP areas, these can easily be adapted to suit the assessment in your department. Files in this resources: Scheme of Work - PowerPoint of all 18 lessons Lesson 6 The Three Little Pigs Story - Word document for Lesson 6 Lesson 6 The Ugly Duckling Story - Word document for Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Persuasive Speech EAL writing frame - PDF for Lesson 7 (can also be used for lower ability students) Lesson 9 Baba Yaga - PDF for Lesson 9 Lesson 12 Planning Sheet - PDF for Lesson 12 Lesson 16 and 17 Little Red Riding Hood poem - Word document for Lesson 16 and 17 Lesson 18 Shrek Critical Appreciation - Word document for Lesson 18

Guide to the music with listening exercises. Ideal for both GCSE and A Level. Questions relate to orchestration,descriptive elements,similarities and differences in realisation of original piano work. Recorded examples available upon request. Identify 5 "Pictures"(using Ravel orchestration),"Promenade" in 5 different arrangements.

Four different activities allow pupils to expand their vocabulary, practise their reading skills and test their knowledge of famous witches, wizzards and vampires. Enjoy a spooky lesson. Feed back please. Thank you.

Celebrating the ancient art of storytelling, and fairy tales that have inspired great films, these two new resources are designed to support literacy for Key Stage 1. Each features five films hand-picked by Into Film curators, accompanied by teachers’ notes, discussion questions, recommended activities and a worksheet which can be photocopied for use in class or a school film club. Start an Into Film club in your school to access the films included in this resource for free: www.filmclub.org and to go www.intofilm.org to find out more about the new charity (formally FILMCLUB and First Light)

A Russian fairy tale retold at three levels: simple plus symbol-support of Widgit/PCS symbols, early reading with illustrations, longer version to read aloud with many opportunities for spoken language tasks. Additional activities: colouring, read / match caption to picture and sequence.

A termly planning sequence with daily inputs, main activities and plenaries and detailed objectives for year 2 and 3.

A termly planning sequence with detailed individual sessions and objectives for Year 2/3.

Find brilliant rainforest characters in ‘The Great Kapok Tree. Explore the language of traditional tales and write a rainforest ‘Just So’ story. Read a tale from Papua New Guinea. Make a board game as a lead in to writing a quest story.