How do we know these things? Does somebody tell us (his parents, the narrator?) or do we observe it for ourselves in the pictures? Thanks so much for your lovely message and for everything that you do with Book Wagon. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. Describe how students can use questioning to increase reading comprehension and explain why it works. Weslandia is founded on a magical staple food crop: a seed that grows into a plant called swist that bears bright red flowers, magenta fruit and delicious tubers on its roots.

I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! One summer, Wesley decides to create his own civilisation – one in which he’s no longer an outcast but the driving force behind its customs, values and technology. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Kevin Hawkes’ artwork, with its vibrant colours and unusual perspectives, adds its own humour to Paul Fleischman’s honed and dryly understated text. This is athree-session spelling seed for the book Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.Gather a collection of advertising materials – it can be interesting to compare modern adverts with older ones, which can be less subtle and therefore easier to analyse. Some texts with a high score may need to be used with support or by children working at a high level within the stage. Discuss the activity. Was it easy to make a choice, knowing that everyone would be looking and making comments? Talk about peer pressure and our need to belong and conform.

I like that he made Swist and all of his own stuff and lived on fruits and other things. - G, age 6 A good picture book can go straight to children’s hearts, encouraging reflection, stimulating discussion and creating fertile ground for the kind of activities that broaden and deepen their experience of the story. Wesley invites the random seeds flung by the wind to grow in his garden furrows. What grows is not ‘ tomatoes, beans or Brussels sprouts‘ selection of Wesley’s fellow gardeners. Wesley encourages his unknown crop, tending it until he’s able to experiment with what it may offer him. Fruit, juice, tubers, fronds to weave… Wesley builds a whole new industry and civilisation from his crop. Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. Take care not to replicate tensions in the playground and ensure your chosen factors are things that won’t upset or offend.I love that this is a recommendation from my niece and nephew. I thought it was a wonderfully clever story with lots of big imagination. I love the artwork and all the things Wes can do with these plants and fruits. This fantastical picture book, like its hero, is bursting at the seams with creativity. . . . a vigorous shot in the arm to nonconformists everywhere" — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.5.1] If you are confident to support your class in talking honestly and safely about how they feel, then try an exclusion role play.