#1 Which one would you read?
Reluctantly, Skater picked up the unwanted package...
Flightsend arrived on their doormat, in an envelope from the estate agent...
That morning after he discovered the tiger, Rob went and stood under the
Kentuck y Star Motel sign and waited for the school bus just like it was any other
day.
His name was Toy Jubilee and he was the largest person that I had ever met. My
Grandfather warned me not to hang around with Toy but that made it even
more tempting
#2 Reading Detectives: what do you think is happening here?
There are two rich kids in our form. Sandra
Morris and Ben Fox. They are both snobs.
They think they are too good for the rest of
us. Their parents have big cars and big
houses. Both of them are quiet. They keep
themselves to themselves.
#3 What do you think the words could or should be?
It was a dark, blustery porcupine in
spring, and the charabanc of London
was chasing a small mining town across
the dried out dynamite of the old North
sea.
#4 Can you make this sentence better?
There was a big car in the
street. Charlie looked at it
and thought to himself.
#5 Match the meanings and think of some more synonyms
sneer:
scoff
mock
delude
snigger
make fun of
jeer
HINT: Use them in a sentence to check their meaning
#6 Predict the next line to this using full sentences. Click to reveal the answer...
Even Anthony’s eyes lit up a little bit when he heard it was lasagne. I washed
the pans.
The kitchen started to fill up with lovely, appetizing smells.
From inside the oven , you could hear the cheese whistling as it cooked.
It was bubbling and squeaking like it was alive.
#7 rearrange these words into a sequence that makes sense. Use the
punctuation as well.
, . – searchlights barbed wire
stars prison fence Christmas in
in glitters wire made of
#8 Toolkit it? Why does this work as a piece of suspense?
Kevin zipped up the tent flap and we chatted for a while. I could just see
my watch hands giving off a strange, green glow. It was creeping
towards ten o’clock. Kevin had just told me a joke about a man with a
dog that wore shoes when we first heard it. A strange scratching noise
coming from just outside the ten. We froze. What on earth could it be?
Then it came again. Something or somebody was moving along the side
of the tent towards the entrance. It was making a scraping noise like
somebody’s last rasping breath! There was no escape. All we could do
was lie there waiting. Terrified, both of us ducked our heads deep into
our sleeping backs and waited. I could feel my heart thumping
#9 Random Word Reader Feeder!
Choose a book.
Ask for a number - this gives you a page to turn to.
Now ask for a number - this gives you the line.
Then ask for a small number - this will select a word.
You then have 15 seconds to write a sentence using the selected word. Then
use the same sort of process to randomly select two or three words - can they
make a sentence using the words...
You must use a capital letter and full stop plus some ambitious words or
punctuation.
#10 Make sense of the ‘unmake-a-sensible’
Here are four nouns and four verbs. Choose one of each and then a make a
sentence that is equally creative and silly. An example has been done for you.
engine
ruler
pencil
tree
sipped
stole
rushed
wished
The engine sipped from a cup of silences.
The ruler stole a tongue of ideas.
The pencil rushed down the stairs and into the garden.
#11 Connect It!
Look at the two sentences. Can you connect them
together with powerful connectives? Do you need
to change the words to make the sentences more
powerful?
The camel ate the cake
The cake was full of dates.
#12 Alliterate an awesome array of amazing animals! Read my example...
The tiny tiger tickled the terrified
terrapin's two toes with torn tinsel.
antelope
baboon
spider
donkey
kangaroo
fish
#13 Can you make this sentence better?
The dog came along the
road
#14 Reader Feeders Needer Help!
He runned down the lain.
She was dead frightened.
I just jumpt over the wall.
I ran home, Lucy just walked.
#15 Why oh why did Teddy do it? Extend the sentence. Here’s an example.
Teddy closed the curtains.
Teddy closed the curtains and the scary shadows
disappeared into the moonlight.
Now you have a go...
Teddy shut the door.
#16 Drop it in!
Take a simple sentence and 'drop in' something
extra, e.g. adjectives, adverb, a phrase or clause.
Don’t drop in too much!
Bertie dug a hole.
#17 Creative Connections: How many words can you think of to do with...
spaghetti
#18 Disasters: Look at these disastrous situations for Superman!
His tights are in the wash.
The colour in his boxer shorts washes out and now they're pink.
His Mum says to be in by 8.00 and in bed by 9.00.
His Dad tells him not to start fights.
His Gran gives him Kryptonite pants for Christmas.
What would be a disaster for
Spiderman?
#19 Can you make this sentence better?
The woman ate the stuff.
#20 Random Word Reader Feeder!
Choose a book.
Ask for a number - this gives you a page to turn to.
Now ask for a number - this gives you the line.
Then ask for a small number - this will select a word.
You then have 15 seconds to write a sentence using the selected word. Then
use the same sort of process to randomly select two or three words - can they
make a sentence using the words...
You must use a capital letter and full stop plus some ambitious words or
punctuation.
#21 Which one would you read? Click for the titles afterwards
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hill when Father
Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his
paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
Jungle Book
I remember him as if it was yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his
sea chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nutbrown man; his tarry pig-tail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat.
Treasure Island
#22 Reading Detectives: what do you think is happening here?
Even Thwaites was unable to offer a
reasonable explanation. We became silent.
There was a faint scent of danger in the air
now. Each of us had caught a whiff of it.
Alarm bells we beginning to ring faintly in
our ears.
#23 What do you think the words could or should be? Click for the answer
We tabled away and tractored
towards the dribbling. All of a
tornado we marmalade to feel
slightly Manchester.
We turned away and walked towards the school. All of a sudden we had begun to feel slightly uncomfortable.
Boy - Roald Dahl
#24 Can you make this sentence better?
There was a small girl in
the toilet. Freddie looked
at her and lifted his finger.
#25 Predict the next line to this using full sentences. Click to reveal the
answer...
The moles shook their heads sadly.
A squirrel blew it’s nose on a butterfly.
The cats looked close to tears.
For Jake was the only dog he had ever loved.
You’re A Bad Man Mr Gum – Andy Stanton
#26 rearrange these words into a sequence that makes sense. Use the
punctuation as well.
, . . if was Dixie not was Emma
did excited understand so Dixie
but
#27 Toolkit it? Why does this description work so well?
I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather ruefully.
It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round shape, hard and
much worse for wear. The lining had been of silk, but was a good deal
discoloured. There was no maker’s name; but, as Holmes had remarked,
the initials “H.B.” were scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the
brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was
cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, although there
seemed to have been some attempt to hide the discoloured patches by
smearing them with ink.
From the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
#28 Random Word Reader Feeder!
Choose a book.
Ask for a number - this gives you a page to turn to.
Now ask for a number - this gives you the line.
Then ask for a small number - this will select a word.
You then have 15 seconds to write a sentence using the selected word. Then
use the same sort of process to randomly select two or three words - can they
make a sentence using the words...
You must use a capital letter and full stop plus some ambitious words or
punctuation.
#29 Make sense of the ‘unmake-a-sensible’
Here are four nouns and four verbs. Choose one of each and then a make a
sentence that is equally creative and silly. An example has been done for you.
car
rubber
fork
flower
guzzled
pinched
dashed
hoped
The car hoped for a bag of joy.
The rubber pinched back a piece of the snow.
The flower dashed up the stairs and into the bathroom.
#30 Connect It!
Look at the two sentences. Can you connect them
together with powerful connectives? Do you need
to change the words to make the sentences more
powerful?
The dog found the key
The key was full of rust.
#31 Alliterate an awesome array of amazing animals! Read my example...
The terrified tortoise tiptoed through
the tiny toad's tent with tatty towels.
aardvark
buffalo
snake
dragon
koala
flamingo
#32 Can you make this sentence better?
The flower was in the
vase.
#33 Reader Feeders Needer Help!
He climmed up the chree.
She was falled on the flaw.
I just runned over the feilds.
I walking home but Lucy runned.
#34 Why oh why did Teddy do it? Extend the sentence. Here’s an example.
Teddy closed the curtains.
Teddy closed the curtains so that the room was plunged into
darkness.
Now you have a go...
Teddy opened the cupboard.
#35 Drop it in!
Take a simple sentence and 'drop in' something
extra, e.g. adjectives, adverb, a phrase or clause.
Don’t drop in too much!
Polly picked a flower.
#36 Creative Connections: How many words can you think of to do with...
penguin
#37 Disasters: Look at these disastrous situations for Superman!
His tights are in the wash.
The colour in his boxer shorts washes out and now they're pink.
His Mum says to be in by 8.00 and in bed by 9.00.
His Dad tells him not to start fights.
His Gran gives him Kryptonite pants for Christmas.
What would be a disaster for
Batman?
#38 Can you make this sentence better?
The rabbit held the carrot.
#39 Random Word Reader Feeder!
Choose a book.
Ask for a number - this gives you a page to turn to.
Now ask for a number - this gives you the line.
Then ask for a small number - this will select a word.
You then have 15 seconds to write a sentence using the selected word. Then
use the same sort of process to randomly select two or three words - can they
make a sentence using the words...
You must use a capital letter and full stop plus some ambitious words or
punctuation.
#40 Which one would you read? Click for the titles afterwards
I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday. July 28 1988. Only now
can I at last tell the whole extraordinary story, the true story.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
It was Mrs May who first told me about them. No, not me. How could it have
been me – a wild, untidy, self-willed little girl who stared with angry eyes and
was said to crunch her teeth.
The Borrowers
#41 Reading Detectives: what do you think is happening here?
So our poor wanderer went forth, and found
all as the night-wind had said; and she
plucked the eleventh rod, and smote the
dragon, and immediately the lion became a
prince and the dragon a princess again.
Grimms’ Fairy Tales: The Lady and the Lion
#42 What do you think the words could or should be? Click for the answer
He daisied the test tube from
Cricklewood’s TomTom,
limousined out the sniffle and
lorried a sniff.
He snatches the test tube from Boffin’s hand, whips out the cork and takes a sniff.
Paul Jennings – Tongue Tied
#43 Can you make this sentence better?
She walked into the
cupboard. The clothes were
hanging in front of her.
#44 Predict the next line to this using full sentences. Click to reveal the
answer...
“After all, your Englishman eats Beef and lamb and pork.
It’s just that he wouldn’t think of eating horse.
He’d sooner keep ‘em in a home like this.”
Horse Pie – Dick King Smith
#45 rearrange these words into a sequence that makes sense. Use the
punctuation as well.
“ . , ‘ . “ poor You get You’re
Emma rusty You thing said
mustn’t wet getting
#46 Toolkit it? The verbs here are powerful. Find them and talk about them.
It was clear enough now, the deep throb of aircraft
engines, punctuated by spluttering. They leaned farther
out of the window and craned upwards, scanning the
night sky. It came from over the moor, and they saw it
at the same time, a red flicker first, and then three
more lights floating down through the sky above the
moor. But the throbbing and coughing had stopped
Friend Or Foe – Michael Morpurgo
now, and there was silence.
#47 Random Word Reader Feeder!
Choose a book.
Ask for a number - this gives you a page to turn to.
Now ask for a number - this gives you the line.
Then ask for a small number - this will select a word.
You then have 15 seconds to write a sentence using the selected word. Then
use the same sort of process to randomly select two or three words - can they
make a sentence using the words...
You must use a capital letter and full stop plus some ambitious words or
punctuation.
#48 Make sense of the ‘unmake-a-sensible’
Here are four nouns and four verbs. Choose one of each and then a make a
sentence that is equally creative and silly. An example has been done for you.
train
hammer
frying pan
hedge
swallowed
jabbed
highlighted
dreamed
The train dreamed of the curved roads of Italy.
The hammer swallowed the rusty head of the nail.
The hedge jabbed its way between the dark shadowy houses.
#49 Connect It!
Look at the two sentences. Can you connect them
together with powerful connectives? Do you need
to change the words to make the sentences more
powerful?
The boy jumped over the wall.
The wall was covered in barbed wire.
#50 Alliterate an awesome array of amazing animals! Read my example...
The terrified tortoise tiptoed through
the tiny toad's tent with tatty towels.
alligator
toucan
serpent
dog
lion
eagle
#51 Can you make this sentence better?
He tripped over the wire.
#52 Reader Feeders Needer Help!
Leaf the room,” ordered Miss.
She mayd miss minchin angryer.
Becky through her apron in the air.
She runned owt of the room.
#53 Why oh why did Teddy do it? Extend the sentence. Here’s an example.
Teddy closed the curtains.
Teddy closed the curtains so and breathed a deep sigh of
relief, happy that the torturous Tuesday was finally finished.
Now you have a go...
Teddy picked up the pen.
#54 Drop it in!
Take a simple sentence and 'drop in' something
extra, e.g. adjectives, adverb, a phrase or clause.
Don’t drop in too much!
Mohammed walked to the
car.
#36 Creative Connections: How many words can you think of to do with...
glue
#56 Disasters: Look at these disastrous situations for Superman!
His tights are in the wash.
The colour in his boxer shorts washes out and now they're pink.
His Mum says to be in by 8.00 and in bed by 9.00.
His Dad tells him not to start fights.
His Gran gives him Kryptonite pants for Christmas.
What would be a disaster for
Alice (from Alice in Wonderland)?
#57 Can you make this sentence better?
The girl fell down the hole.