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Use these images of the front and back cover of The Christmas Wish in conjunction with the ‘Explore the story’ lesson in the Snow topic.
Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with our The Christmas Wish themed certificate.
Reward your KS2 storytellers with our The Christmas Wish themed certificate.
Use these text-only resource sheets to explore the language of The Christmas Wish and examine some of the author’s writing techniques.
Help the children to understand the story structure by asking them to create a story map for The Christmas Wish.
Hear a slightly longer version of Captain Scott's wife being interviewed. This gives a taste of what it would have been like back in Great Britain while Captain Scott and his team were adventuring in the South Pole.
Our podcast for the Snow topic sees the wife of Captain Scott being interviewed and gives a taste of what it would have been like back in Great Britain while Captain Scott and his team were adventuring in the South Pole.
These edited extracts are a challenging read and make for pretty grim reading but they could be tackled by older children with adult support.
Use this text-only ebook to explore the language of The Christmas Wish and examine some of the author’s writing techniques.
Use this game as a fun way to recall what children have learned about Captain Scott.
Catch Clare Bevan's rhythm and rhyme bug with these perky poems. Perfect for chanting aloud, learning off by heart and as inspiration for the children's own poetry.
Ask the children to critique the storytellers in their class and give each one two things that they thought were great and one thing they think might be improved.
Perfect for your Christmas production or scaled-down class assembly production, our editable playscript can be adapted for as few or as many children or you need to accommodate.
A step-by-step guide to using The Christmas Wish .kmz file in Google Earth™.
Get a goose-eye view with ‘The Christmas Wish Google Earth™ tour file’.
Some festive writing borders inspired by The Christmas Wish.
Hone those colouring, cutting and sticking skills with these alphabet and festive symbol paper chains.
Talk through the events in The Christmas Wish using this story map.
Who might live in a house like this?
A wordsearch inspired by The Christmas Wish.
Our creative topics and their springboard stories...
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