There are different levels of difficulty so children can use prompts to help them. E.g. extra spacing and underlined capitals. Around /loc -950, 785, -8 you get an emote: You hear a roar followed by the sounds of something charging toward you at terrifying speed. You find several footprints in the snow. It is clear that there was a struggle here. Large footprints lead off to the southeast. I think the biggest problem with this collection were my inappropriate expectations. While I wanted to read something like The Space Between Us, my favourite Courtney's work to date, this reminded me more of I Hope You Stay and Watering The Soul, both of which I didn't enjoy that much. It's written in extremely similar writing style, and now it's becoming quite obvious that it just doesn't work for me. Your KS1 class can even cut out the sentences and arrange and rearrange accordingly. If you have numerous copies of the book they can cross reference using the book as and determine their accuracy for self assessment and reflection.

Missionary Ada says, 'Hello there. We haven't seen a lot of you adventurer types in a while. As you can see, a lot has changed here. With all the [strange things] going on I suppose it seems petty for me to worry about my own small [troubles].'When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things—your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. This 2-week unit covers both writing and reading skills and is complete with a detailed PowerPoint and resources, as well as a marking ladder to assess children’s independent writing against the End of KS1 TAF.

I need to stop judging books by their covers; it rarely works out for me. What a cover though, right? Unfortunately, the poetry did not live up to the cover for me. I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.You are going to start by reading the book so I won’t tell you too much about what happens but it features a boy with an aeroplane and an alien with a spaceship. When we were studying Up and Down, we learned how to draw the boy. There are three things to remember to help you when you are drawing: Missionary Ada says, 'Hah, what isn't strange out here these days? Something is affecting the ice and snow, as I'm sure you can see. It, well, it moves. Its like its sort of alive. It crawls up walls or just on top of itself. That's what created all those spikey ice structures. It also seems to crawl into the bodies of the dead and causes them to move too. None of us know what's causing it, though we have our [suspicions] about who is behind it.'

This whole class reading resource focuses on adding in capital letters and full stops to the sentences.

Help your child to make finger puppets of the martian and the boy out of felt or other fabric. Alternatively you could use small cardboard tubes decorated with coloured paper, paint or fabric to make mini figures. Playthe story Your class will work on their questioning skills by reading the answers and writing a suitable question. This poetry anthology was written with the panic and claustrophobia, the grief and the uncertainty, that the recent pandemic brought to all our lives. It is very personal, focusing on Peppernell's own losses and mental health struggles, but with themes that are universally experienced. I found many a beautiful passage to underline and much hope delivered after the very bleak first portion. Your class must identify where the capital letters and full stops must go in the sentences/passages.