The Snail and the Whale
Characters and Settings
This resource allows your children to get familiar with the characters and settings in the story.
They can use the images and words to help them as a reference point when writing their own narrative.
This resource is aimed at Year 1/Year 2.
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Phonics
Check out our phonics resource that encourages your children to study the text and try to find the sounds in words.
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Picture Comprehensions
This is a great activity for those children who struggle with comprehensions. In this activity, they must looked carefully at the pages in the book to answer the questions.
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Narrative Pack
This resource introduces your class to the characters and settings to help them create their own narrative.
The children are then encouraged to consider different things in the three sections of their story…
Beginning of a story – Introduce and describe the characters and setting.
Middle – What is the main character’s goal? Describe the journey. Introduce the problem.
Ending – How was the problem solved? What did the main character learn?
Cover and Blurb
Through the story the children must tick the teaching points to self assess their work.
This resource can be used in Year 2, 3 & 4.
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Commas for Lists
This is a differentiated resource that encourages your children to add in the commas where appropriate and then create their own list using the story vocabulary.
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Punctuation
In this resources your children are challenged to add in the punctuation by referring to the original text. This is great for those children who are beginning to reflect on feedback to improve their work.
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Spelling (Text Work)
In this activity, your class must correct all the spelling errors in the text.
There will also be homophones mixups as well as issues with tense.
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Spelling (Rearrange Letters)
The children must try to rearrange the letters to make words from the story. There are differentiated resources to suit different abilities in your class.
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Adjectives
In this resource, you children will be encouraged to reflect on the adjectives used in the story of The Snail and the Whale.
There are a variety of activity sheets so have a look by clicking here.
Non-Fiction - Comprehension
This resources is aimed at year 2 and 3, although could be used for some year 4s.
There are different levels to this comprehension which challenges the children to find out more about whales and more specifically orcas. Ironically, orcas aren’t even whales.
Click here to download the draft.
Newspaper Report
This is a newspaper report about a sighting of two orcas off the coast of Ireland.
The children can read the report and discuss the features. They can then create their own using the blank template.
Source: The Independent
