Handa’s
Surprise
Which fruit Akeyo Song:
For children to listen to when learning about the story. Very catchy and
suitable for infant children.
Book Review Sheet:
Suitable for KS1 in reviewing their favourite parts of Handa’s Surprise.
Challenge Cards: Children to
have a visual image to support them when independent writing. Great to use to
introduce literacy activity e.g. make your character talk, use an adjective!
My Favourite Part:
A sheet to use for children to write their favourite part of the Handa’ story
on, comes with success criteria but that can be easily changed/adapted. (One
sheet for LA children and one for UA.)
Simple Retell Sheet: Children
to use these sheets to complete the sentences by writing the correct animal and
correct food e.g. the Zebra took the Oranges!
Fruit Tasting Sheet: A
sheet with images of each type of fruit from the story and space for children
to write an adjective to describe the taste of it.
Retell the Story Sheet: A
sheet for children to write the story of Handa’s Surprise in their own words.
Contains success criteria for LA, MA and UA groups.
New Fruits: A set of three
different ability sheets to enable children to write their own version of the
Handa’s Surprise story by changing the fruit and the animal.
Smartboard Handa Sentence Writing: A
smartboard presentation to introduce how to change the story. This presentation
has blanks on the slides so that children can select a different animal by
drawing it and add a different fruit, together forming a new story by
generating ideas together in whole class.
Letterbox Lil
A super story whilst teaching the topic of Houses
and Homes. The story is about a little girl called Lil! She loves peaking
through people’s letterboxes in the town where she lives! Behind each door Lil
spies some interesting people and characters… until one day she looks behind a
door only to be faced with some eyes staring back at her!
Smartboard 1: What could be
behind the letterbox? A blank format for children to write what could be behind
the door.
Smartboard 2: An opportunity to
order pictures from the story in the sequence they happened in the book. Great
to use to introduce sequencing independently through a whole class
presentation.
Smartboard 3: Using
some of the characters from the story, discuss what they may be saying or
feeling. Children to write in the large speech and though bubbles.
Letterbox Lil Story: A
copy of the story for children to read using the interactive whiteboard. Option
of using the drag and cover tool to reveal parts of the picture to discuss them
in more detail.
Letterbox Lil
Wordsearch: A great extention / finishing activity. A
wordsearch full of keywords for children to find and circle!
Lift the Letter Box: Children
to draw what they think maybe behind the door and to write a description using
adjectives.
Speech Bubble
Worksheets: Three differentiated ability worksheets using
characters from the story and speech and though bubbles to encourage sentence
writing.
Retell Worksheets: Three
differentiated ability worksheets for children to retell the story by writing
the events order.
Planning: A
copy of my weekly literacy planning for the teaching of Letterbox Lil.
General Topic Resources
Houses and Homes Activity Booklet: A
great booklet full of topic based activities for children to complete
independently e.g. mazes, dot to dots, colourings, writing opportunities.
House Outline: An outline for
children to fill with cut out furniture from magazines e.g. Argos catalogues.
Children can draw the rooms and label the furniture used.
Houses and Homes PPT: A
powerpoint presentation looking at different types of homes in the UK and
abroad. Can be used to discuss materials and what are suitable materials for
building a home.
My Address: A worksheet
proforma for children to write their address in their best handwriting made
with a houses page border.
My Home: A worksheet proforma for
children to draw a picture of their home and label.
Numbered Houses: A
sheet with doors some with a number children write the missing numbers on each
door.
Smartboard
Presentation: Great for use when intrdocuing the topic of
Houses and Homes. It contains information on Estate Agents, adverts, addresses
and much more!
