sábado, 5 de enero de 2019

YEAR 6: KENSUKE'S KINGDOM

Last year!! Year 6!!
For this year, one idea for a book could be "Kensuke's kingdom". This book is a very big jump from the book of year 5 and it would be really great if your students of year 6 could read it. 
The book is about a kid called Michael that was saling with his family and after a storm in the sea he appeared in a lonely island. There he met Kensuke and they had some adventures together.
Although is a heavy book and has some difficult language, the topic is nice and I'm sure the students will love it. 



HANDS ON!!
To help the children understand the events in the book and work with them, we can do many different activities. 
One of them could be making a map including all the places Michael visited. We can also include some pictures of the cities and search information. With this activity we work English and also Geography.
This is an example map I made: Michael's trip log

We can also work an historical event related to this book: The atomic bombings in Nagasaki.
With the app for the computed called Inspiration we can make a map to analyze what happend, who was involved, where did it happen, what were the causes... 
This is an example map we can do with the children.




After doing the map, we can pass into sentence level and write some sentences for each section of the map. This will the students us to clarify the ideas in order to write then a final text.




Finally, using the sentences they have already written, the children should write a whole text retelling the event. They will have to give an structure to the text and add some conectors for the text to make sense.



Hope you liked it! 😉

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