Wave your wand and enchant your classroom with these lesson plans and crafts based on the harry potter series. It has lots of helpful suggestions on ways to prevent avoidable dog bite injuries. Friend or foe is a great book for children 9 or older. Here is a list of fourteen student engagement strategies from reading horizons reading. Friend or foe literacy evolve, year 5 pdf view larger image. Preschool and kindergarten friendship crafts, activities, games, and printables. Then one night the skyline of the moor is lit up with gun flashes, and the distant crump of bombing miles away brings the war back to them and shatters their. Friend or foe tells the story of david and tucky, as they are evacuated to exeter from blitz torn london during the second world war. No catches, no fine print just unconditional book loving for your children with their favourites saved to their own digital bookshelf. Guided reading comprehension the last wolf by michael morpurgo. Friend or foe by michael morpurgo teaching resources ks2. Trailer for supers romance, friend or foe, by frances pauli friend or foe 2. Evacuated to devon during wwii, david and tucky have their lives changed and preconceptions challenged when a german bomber crashes nearby.
It explains how they are spread and how bad microbes are fought using vaccines and antibiotics. This is a reading worksheet on internet related vocabulary which can also be used as a test for intermediate students. We will be completing guided reading questions and. Children celebrate the joys of making and having friends with our friendship theme. If you require a hard copy of the book, i have some in school, let me know and i can arrange a copy for you to collect. Kindness activities are just as important as teaching math, reading, and other subjects. The perfect accompaniment to a topic on world war 2, friend or foe is another of morpurgos finest reads that have captured the imaginations of so many children studying this period in time.
Kindness activities for every positive classroom proud. For friend or foe it focuses on narrative writing and dialogue. Key stage 2 ks2 lower covers students in year 3 and year 4. Michael morpurgo month primary teaching ideas and book activities. Activity ideas and lesson plans for louis sachars holes. So today we are going to explore 25 proven activities that can be applied to any book and at any age level.
Find friend or foe lesson plans and teaching resources. The cause of the events in this book is the war as it causes the children in the book to flee from their homes and families. Friend or foe by michael morpurgo an abridgement of friend or foe by michael morpurgo. Friend of foe i recently read kensukes kingdom by michael morpurgo, so i decided to read another book by him called friend or foe. Friendship crafts, activities, games, and printables. This activity book can help in showing you kids how to act responsibly and safely around dogs. This term our topic is pack up your troubles well be finding out as much as we can about world war two and using the story. Friend or foe teacher followup activities the friend or foe followup activities provide pupils with opportunities to achieve key stage 2 learning outcomes from the pse framework for. Caldecott books playdough activities art lessons friend activities literacy activities library lessons picture book activities literature activities activities for kids this simple invitation to create an imaginary friend with play dough activity is a great literacy tie in for the 2015 caldecott medal winner the adventures of beekle. Kids learn from a multitude of methods on how to behave as well as how to retain book information. Your germans have surrendered and you are a hero as in the book. Tes global ltd is registered in england company no 02017289 with its registered office at 26 red lion square london wc1r 4hq. Four comprehension tasks with teaching notes and a teacher reading read more. Michael morpurgo month primary teaching ideas and book.
Although they dislike being evacuated from london during the war. Overview every summer in canada, the news is full of stories about forestfire season and how this is shaping up to be the worst fire season on record. Our new book is friend or foe, by michael morpurgo. Audio abridgement in 8 episodes for ks2 and ks3 pupils. Adaptable reading comprehension resource packs, inference and deduction worksheets and activities supporting character profile analysis. I think this book is well suited to upper ks2 children as the two boys in the story.
Also included are additional resources linked to grammar, character profiles, paragraph frames and question prompts. The story of two evacuees, david and tucky, and their new life in the countryside. Not all people who are portrayed as enemies are actually. The book provides examples of how microbes are both helpful and harmful. They engage in sharing and caring activities, games, songs, rhymes, literature, and snacks.
Becoming a member of the lovereading4kids community is free. Friend or foe by michael morpurgo is a great novel suitable for older pupils in ks2, which is based on the second world war. Friend or foe by michael morpurgo 9781405233378paperback. This website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions. This book has lots of great information on world war 2 but morpurgo make these facts interesting by putting them in events which happen during the story.
We follow the two as they go through the heart rending process of being selected by their new carers, and then settling in to their new homes and schools. After graduating from university, michael became a primary school teacher in kent. Primary resources is a participant in the amazon eu associates programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. We only ever see forest fires in a negative light because so much of what we hear is.
Friend or foe is a book about a child affected by war who comes to realise that the enemy are real people with feelings who just happen to be on the opposite side. As a child, i remember listening with baited breath as our headteacher read friend or foe aloud in assembly. Michael morpurgo was born on 5th october 1943 in st albans, hertfordshire. The story is a classic tale of secrecy and adventure set during world war two. New fiction book available on active learn as an e book. Make a list of new, unusual, or interesting words or phrases found in your book.
Michael morpurgo has a very descriptive writing style, which helped me picture what it was like during war from a childs point of view. The book had many historical facts in it such has the bombing that went on by the germans over london, the way they shipped kids away to live with other families to keep them safe and wars that went on. You do not think of the feelings of others and your friends are simply people to hang around with, they can easily be replaced. The plant seeds of friendship and friendship quilt activities are excellent starting points for discussions on friendship behaviors. When a german bomber crashes, the boys feel they should hate the. Here are 15 facts about michael morpurgo, the famous english childrens author. The good news is that there are many activities that will enable you to spend less time talking and more time getting your students engaged during reading instruction.
These activities are easy to follow an suitable for most age groups within an elementary junior high school level. For generations of teachers, myself included, michael morpurgo s books are an integral part of school life. This could be used as a short classroom activity or as homework to consolidate the learning in the teaching session. Friend or foe is a gripping world war ii story from war horse author and former childrens laureate michael morpurgo evacuated from london, david and tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the countryside. Explore more than 3,367 friend or foe michael morpurgo resources for teachers, parents and pupils. There are several activities in which students are asked to read the text, say who or what the words refer to in the text, go through the text and find expressions that mean the same as the expressions given, complete different sentences according to the text and answer the. Comprehension, writing and word activities based on friend or foe by michael. It can be used to introduce students to any new book, whether a work of literature or a resource book such as holocaust and human behavior. A delightful little film that realistically portrays life as it really was for us london evacuees. Blurb evacuated from london, david and tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the devon countryside. Friend or foe comprehension activities teaching resources.
Classroom activities book activities classroom ideas school tool school stuff 5th grade books holes book louis sachar realistic fiction this is a rubric for a brochure projectactivity to enrich an unit using the book holes by louis sachar. The story is a classic tale of secrecy and adventure set during. Guided reading, lexile measure, grade level equivalent, dra level. This activity asks students to make predictions and ask questions about a book before they jump into reading it. All 25 different activities for reading and writing i found very useful and i would use most of the like r and r, story talk, art full artist etc. Only based on the first few chapters so far with follow up activity to match plotbased objec. Across the many books michael morpurgo has written over the years, animals and their relationships with humans have. The most important method of teaching anything in the classroom is almost always direct instruction. This story of adventure, survival and friendship is a staple of the ks2 classroom. Only based on the first few chapters so far with follow up activity to match plotbased objective. Research shows that students whose teachers spend too much time talking are less likely to be engaged during classroom instruction. David carey and his friend tucky, two boys from london, are evacuated to the devon countryside. Books to support this unit are friend or foe by michael morpurgo. A quick search online leads you to a bbc radio play of the story that is free to listen to, which makes this a valuable text for comparing play scripts and prose.
As they adjust to their new life away from the city, one night the skyline of the moor is lit up with gun flashes and the memory of war threatens to shatter their new. When a german bomber crashes, the boys feel they should hate the airmen inside. After our lesson on mr reynolds, i asked my class to see if they could go one step further and record their. Write a letter or email to a close friend recommending the book you have just read. Most importantly, harry continues to unlock the magic of reading for.
Audio an abridgement of friend or foe by michael morpurgo. Friend or foe would be suitable for class based reading in year 4 and 5, and. Term 5 hello hope class we hope that you are all keeping well and that youve had a lovely easter break. Use these twentyfive ideas to shake up your book related activities. Friend or foe by michael morpurgo primary resources. Rowlings boy wizard, has sold over 400 million books in 68 languages and led readers through more than 4,000 pages. Evacuated from london, david and tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the devon countryside. However, lets all remember something very important. Friend or foe, michael morpurgo teaching resources. Features 33 teaching ideas and accompanying resources.