alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Lesson ideas:
- Speaking and Listening - Communicate with peers and familiar adults about personal experiences. Discuss the range of emotions within the text and how Alexander responds to them. Was Alexander being proactive or reactive? Explore alternative responses and discuss the circle of control.
- Thinking Imaginatively and Creatively : Identify creative language features in imaginative texts that enhance enjoyment, e.g. illustrations, repetition. Identify the catch phrases within the text. Create new catch phrases.
- Writing and Representing 2: Respond to and compose texts - draw on personal experience and feelings as subject matter to compose imaginative and other texts for different purposes. Explore cause and effect examples in the text. Create an adaptation of the text incorporating repeated catch phrases.