Dr. Seuss loved playing with words and rhymes to create fun, imaginative and engaging poetic stories. We hope these lesson ideas help to encourage a love of performance poetry in children. Here is a two-part lesson plan. Firstly, exploration and recital of The Cat in the Hat, and then suggestions on how you can support your class in planning and developing their piece of Dr. Seuss inspired performance poetry.

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

Download this free bundle of resources for Oliver Jeffers’ incredible picture book Here We Are. Design a guide leaflet to inform other people about how they can take care of planet Earth, design a poster to welcome someone to planet Earth, and learn about the stars in the sky!

David Walliams’ Fing activity sheets for 7-12 year olds.

Activity sheets for David Walliams’ brand new book Slime!

Colour in Tiger and Sophie.

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.

Come join one busy dog on her journey to find her place in the world in Odd Dog Out, the third sublimely illustrated book from the bestselling, award-winning Rob Biddulph. Design your own Odd Dog Out, because being different is really great!

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.

Pax was only a kit when his family was killed and he was rescued by “his boy,” Peter. Then Peter has to move in with his grandfather. and must leave Pax behind. This is the story of Peter, Pax, and their independent struggles to return to each other in the face of war. This discussion guide leads the reader through the key themes and ideas, craft, and structure of Sara Pennypacker's novel Pax. The guide includes extension activities to research the issues raised in the book in more detail, and an interview with author Sara Pennypacker.

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.

A bundle of five KS2-aligned teaching resources on David Baddiel’s hilarious blockbuster novel The Parent Agency. These resources encourage the reader to: Use spoken language to speculate and explore ideas Grow their confidence and competence in using spoken language and listening skills Engage critically with the story Write imaginatively focusing on creative uses of language Be an active and critical reader

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Task: Choose one of the characters from the story and create a character profile for them. Use information from the text and your own imagination to create the profile. Ideas to think about: • What does he/she look like? • What does he/she do? • What is his/her personality like? • What are his/her favourite foods or hobbies? • What are the things that he/she doesn’t like? • What family does he/she have?

The Ice Monster, the epic adventure from multi-million bestselling author David Walliams, takes our heroine Elsie on a voyage from the Natural History Museum to the icy North Pole! At the Museum, she meets the wicked Professor, who brings the Ice Monster back to life with his incredible machine… This British Science Week, we’re celebrating the amazing scientific achievements of the Natural History Museum, and imagining all the marvelous inventions we could create! Suitable for KS2 pupils.

Test your knowledge of the story. See how many quiz questions you can answer correctly. Use the book to help you find the answers.

Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for… the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning… Can you find all the words? They go up, down, sideways, diagonally and even backwards!

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

A bundle of 12 KS2-aligned resources to accompany David’s Baddiel’s body-swap blockbuster novel Head Kid! These resources encourage the reader to: Develop positive attitudes to reading Understand what they read in books they can read independently Identify themes and conventions in fiction books Participate in discussion about books Explain the meaning of words in context Identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text

A comprehensive set of Key Stage 2 teaching resources to use with Boy Underwater by Adam Baron - named Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, June 2018. Twenty-seven activities in all - one for each chapter of the book to facilitate classroom while reading the book together without having to wait to finish. Most chapters also have discussion points. Curriculum links covered include: Understand what they read - asking and answering questions to improve their understanding Understand what they read - identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning Understand what they read - discuss and evaluate how authors use language Understand what they read - drawing inferences such as character’s feelings, thoughts and motives Understand what they read - checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context Understand what they read - summarizing the main ideas, identifying key details to support Understand what they read - predicting what might happen from details supplied and implied Maintain positive attitudes to reading - identifying and discussing themes and conventions Maintain positive attitudes to reading - preparing poems and plays to read aloud and perform Maintain positive attitudes to reading - recommending books that they have read to their peers Maintain positive attitudes to reading - increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books Maintain positive attitudes to reading - participate in discussions about books Maintain positive attitudes to reading - explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read Discuss and evaluate how authors use language