Educating the Dragon

This session ran really well today. What amazed me, yet again, is the sense of wonder and anticipation even Itermediates have for a shared big book. Obviously you have to choose carefully…. “Each Peach Pear Plum” though it is my son’s favourite book is inappropriate for 12 and 13year olds.

My choice was In the Woods by Chris Wormall… Though it sound a quaint story to begin with a relies on prior knowledge of rhymes and other fairy stories there is a twist to the tail that brings the students up short if they have never heard it before. In fact many of Chris’ books are like this. But the reason I chose this one was the fact it followed a journey- in the woods- as the name states. We used the IWB to plan out a retelling of the story then the pictures show the students making embedding their own sound files for different portions of the story. A great whole class/ breaking into groups kinda lesson. They responded well to the challenge.