Character Study – The Perfect Quote

This term we are reading and studying together L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz”.
Today we read chapter three : How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow.
I asked the children to scan back through the first three chapters until they found a passage which described a character of their choice in such detail that they might be [...]

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A’s Book Review – My Unwilling Witch Goes to Ballet School

A Review of: Rumblewick’s Diary – My Unwilling Witch Goes To Ballet School
Author: Hiawyn Oram
Illustrated by: Sarah Warburton.
Reviewed by: A (Aged 9)
Have you ever wanted to ride on a broomstick? Well, Haggy Aggy can but she doesn’t want to!
Rumblewick is Haggy Aggy’s cat or familiar. He is a kind and clever cat but he [...]

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Creative Writing – Using a Poem as Inspiration

Today at Dragontree we were working on our creative writing. We began by reading and analysing “The Magic Box” by Kit Wright, focusing on the writing style and the language used throughout the poem, e.g use of alliteration, powerful verbs, superlatives , etc.
The children discussed the magical and mysterious theme throughout and how the poet [...]

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Book Review – Tony Robinson’s Worst Children’s Jobs in History

M (10) writes:
Do you think your chores are bad? Do you think that your schoolwork is difficult? Well, read on!
I am going to tell you about Tony Robinson’s  book “The Worst Children’s Jobs in History”. This book gives you information about the worst, grottiest, smelliest, most disgusting and back-breaking jobs that children have been [...]

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

On our bookshelf, sandwiched between Ted Hughes’ “Birthday Letters” and Fiona Waters’ compilation “Glitter When You Jump”, lies an old, hard-backed poetry book entitled “Fifteen Poets”. It contains a selection of works by poets including Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Tennyson and Browning and is one of those books that sits patiently on a shelf, waiting [...]

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Book Review: Daisy Meadows’ Flora the Fancy Dress Fairy.

(A) looked at characters and setting for her review of this book from the Rainbow Magic series of stories by Daisy Meadows….
I thought that this story had horrid bad guys who made me feel shocked and worried. Who were the bad guys? Jack Frost and the goblins! They made mischief and they wanted to spoil [...]

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Book Review: Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox

For this review, (M) focussed on plot and character …
This book is about a very clever fox feeding his family with farmers’ animals. The farmers don’t like it so they try to kill him . Can Mr fox and his family survive ?
I thought that this story had bad guys that were so mean, stupid [...]

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Reading : Reviews and Analysis

As we approach the start of a new year we thought that it might be fun to start a record of the books, articles and web-based features that we have read. As we progress, we intend to add reviews and show how we use reading to further our own literary projects, so watch this space [...]

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