A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

Proudly powered by EdShed, Literacy Shed Plus provides teaching resources for literacy, VIPERS, film units, book studies and more.

Proudly powered by EdShed, Literacy Shed Plus provides teaching resources for literacy, VIPERS, film units, book studies and more.

This is quite a simple idea, the bridge is too narrow for the animals to pass. If they worked together they could get past, the bear and the elk are too stubborn and mean to help each other and they fall into the abyss. The rabbit and raccoon work together and go on their ways. Ask the children what this film teaches us.

Write a series of short diary entries from the point of view of one of the animals which then leads up to the best night of their life. Write the conversation between the animals on the trampoline. What is buster thinking as he's looking out into the garden?

I: How do you think all the animals are feeling? R: Who did the animals want to go and see?

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The Literacy Shed (c) 2017 Introduction Write a short introduction to your creature. This only needs to be a line or two. Explain briefly what it is and give a fact or two about it. E.g. The donriphantis a large mammal and a member of the elephant family. It is native to Africa and lives in large herds. Main paragraphs

Research animals of the rainforest. Ask children to find out about where Toki might live, if he goes to school, what he might eat. etc Write a diary entry for a day in the life of Toki. Write a letter to Toki asking him questions they would like to find out …

The Literacy Shed ©2020 High above the village, at the edge of the cliff, sat the Briar’s Rock lighthouse. Its bright light danced over the ... He stared at the approaching boat like a wild animal caught in the headlights. Make vocabulary swaps for smarter words. E.g. He noticed the boat vessel heading for the rocks and