- Directions – where did the paper dolls go?
- Thought/speech bubbles for each paper doll
- Retell story or part of story
- Retell of story or part of story in the first person as litte girl
- Write a fantasy story about their own paper dolls journey
- Instructions for making paper dolls
- Letter to boy to persuade him not to snip the dolls
- Fact file about the dolls
/ 1. Responding to the Text
- Book talk: what do you like or not like about the book?
- Book talk: Have you any questions about the story? Does it remind you of anything?
- Book talk: why do you think the boy decided the snip the paper dolls up?
- Why do you think the girl enjoyed playing with the paper dolls so much?
- Visual literacy: look at how the illustrator has drawn the pictures. Why has she drawn them this way?
- Writer talk: look at the page where the paper dolls fly into the girl’s memory. Why is this a happy page?
- Writer talk: the story ends with a picture. What do you think will happen?
Hook
- Children enter classroom to find paper doll chains all around
- Go on a trip to a local town and describe what the paper dolls experience
2. Capturing Ideas
- Think of some questions to ask the boy in an interview
- Interview the boy
- Find the main events and make story map
- Retell story in complete sentences
- Emotions graph to track girl’s feelings through the story
- Role play scene with girl and her mum
- Think of endings for the story
- Choose an ending and tell a partner your idea in sentences
- Make map or flow chart for visit to Warrington
- Retell in complete sentences
- Give spoken instructions - how to make a paper doll chain
- Sentence not a sentence game based on book
- Fortunately, unfortunately game
- Improve a sentence- focus on the grammatical elements that need consolidation or review
- Question, command, statement game
- Chain writing
- Time adverbs and adverbials to move events forward or sequence instructions
- Forming questions, statements and command sentences
- Commas in lists
- Using subordination and coordination in sentences
Guided Reading Possibilities
- Other Julia Donaldson books
- Instruction books – how to make…crafts
- Information texts on different towns and urban geography
4. Modelled Writing
Shared Writing Guided Writing Independent Writing