The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark (picture book) UPDATED BUNDLE

In this pack we’ve combined our Guided Reading pack and Starting Points set to give you a broad range of resources and planning ideas for Babette Cole’s alternative fairy story, Princess Smartypants. Both resources are available separately on the Primary English website, but can be downloaded here as a value-for-money bundle.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark (picture book): Starting Points

In this set of Starting Points based on The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in KS1.

In this set of Starting Points we have planned for the following grammar learning:

• Formation of nouns by compounding

• Subordination and co-ordination

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification

• How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command

• Use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences

• Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark (picture book): Guided Reading Teaching Sequence

With a focus on retrieval skills, this teaching sequence is ideal for guided reading with younger children.

This teaching sequence includes:

• A guided reading lesson plan in an editable word document format

• Owl picture resource

• Character, quote and reason matching cards resource

• A photocopiable set of comprehension questions for independent or teacher/ TA supported work

• A wordsearch suitable for independent work

The book is not included in this pack.