This week, in The Wild Robot, a very dramatic event occurs on the island and it makes for a perfect opportunity for kids to write a newspaper report based on the event. Included in this week’s study guide are handy tips for writing a newspaper report and newspaper report planning sheet, and a newspaper report template. Kids will actually have […]
This weeks study guide of The Wild Robot focuses on adverbs. Adverbs are significant in helping us as readers understand the context of when, where, how, how often, to what extent the actions we read about take place. In our writing, a well-placed adverb or adverbial phrase will help keep our writing concise, whilst giving the readers help […]
Now that the Non-Chronological writing project is completed we can turn all of our attention back on the story. This week we will be focusing on the ever important skill of giving and writing summaries. We will also be sequencing events, focusing on using comas when listing, and homophones. Writing summaries can be a difficult […]
Only three chapters this week? This is to make room for some serious work on the non-chronological report on camouflage. However, we do have time to squeeze in some reading, and also zoom in on the super important action verbs. In this post: The Wild Robot Chapters 23-25 Study Guide Teaching Notes And Answers Non-Chronological […]
This week we will uncover the creative and strategic use of adjectives in The Wild Robot by the author, Peter Brown. In this week’s study guide and blog post, we will not only analyse the impact of adjectives in these chapters but also introduce the ‘ey’ spelling rule for the long ‘a’ sound. Also included are comprehension […]
Types of nouns, common nouns and proper nouns, noun Pictionary, a descriptive writing activity, spelling the long ‘a’ sound using ‘ei, comprehension questions, and activities to learn and consolidate vocabulary. This is what you can expect in this weeks The Wild Robot literature study guide based on Chapters 9-13. Welcome to the second week […]
Pre-reading book discussion questions, comprehension questions, adding details to descriptions, when to use capital letters, exploring vocabulary using the Freyer Model, short writing activities, and spelling the long ‘a’ sound. This is what you can expect in this weeks The Wild Robot literature study guide based on Chapters 1-8. Welcome to the first of […]
Buy The Wild Robot on Amazon (paid link) Jump to the contents for all of the posts and accompanying weekly literature study guides published so far. For our English lessons, we are going to kick off this year with The Wild Robot. Not only that, I have actually gone full throttle and planned a compete […]