I’m the English Coordinator at a small little school and I took on the task last year of developing a guided reading programme for KS2 as I noticed this was missing from the school.

a sheet of individual pupil questions that they glue into their Reading Response journals after reading a chapter with the teacher (again not entirely mine as I found some questions here and there). The humour in this short story is unbelievably good, I was laughing out loud to myself from the first page and it's just as entertaining now as it ever was! As they do, it is uncovered that their rabbit had been ill for quite some time and had died of its own accord. The book gives a great account of this as it demonstrates how different the cat’s thoughts are on the situation from the typical ‘human opinion’ which I feel children would find amusing. And well, for me personally (and as someone who is increasingly aware of the fact that domestic cats are an invasive species and can be a major threat to and for birds), permitting pet felines to be outside cats or even both outside and inside cats is (at least for me) totally unacceptable and also environmentally problematic behaviour and that at the very least, there should be in The Diary of a Killer Cat more attempts being made to keep Tuffy inside, with me also thinking that Anne Fine as an author and as a person probably seems to think that outside cats are acceptable (with which I beg to differ and that this kind of even makes me, makes my adult self see a bit proverbially red regarding The Diary of a Killer Cat, and that my five star rating for my inner child is lowered to only three stars when my adult reading self thinks about Tuffy being continuously outside in The Diary of a Killer Cat and this all being pretty much considered tolerably unproblematic by Anne Fine).are all questions can be posed in the lesson to help children think about the different forms a diary can take in itself. From the point of view of Tuffy, Anne Fine’s book gives a comical account of what it could be like to be a cat. A great read which will have children and adults alike waiting for the next bit of mischief had by Tuffy the cat. However, crying into his fur and having funerals for his various victims does not stop Tuffy from going on his mischievous rambles in the middle of the night.

This helps to compensate for the fact that the book does not have much substance, in terms of an obvious moral or purpose and so otherwise may not always be suitable for reluctant readers. Another writing task that could be initiated in using this book, could be one that involves writing in a different form.This book’s simple but effective structure also makes it a helpful book in which children can do comprehension tasks in guided reading activities. Because let's face the facts here, Tuffy is able to be such an unrelenting hunter and "killer cat" because Ellie and her family in The Diary of a Killer Cat are shown by Anne Fine as obviously having no qualms whatsoever regarding letting their pet freely and continuously roam outside and with there even being a designated cat door so that Tuffy can freely enter and exit at will. On the negative this book would not be good for those sensitive as there is a case of a bunny dying.

Throughout the twists and turns of the cats cheeky comments and actions I had a smile on my face, and I believe that children would thoroughly enjoy reading this book also. During the Christmas break I read this book with my 7 year old cousin who just absolutley loved the story. When inside their own home, Ellie’s family realise that they had made a mistake about Tuffy and apologise for thinking that he had murdered the rabbit. Though readers often find themselves inadvertently laughing aloud as they read Anne Fine's novels, as she herself admits, "a lot of my work, even for fairly young readers, raises serious social issues.Divertidísima historia de Anne Fine que me ha dado muchas satisfacciones al compartirla con los niños. The Diary of a Killer Cat is available direct from publisher Penguin books as an ePub eBook or as a downloadable audiobook. Her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year; Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize, and Madame Doubtfire was made into a major feature film. I am so grateful to you for the time taken to prepare these and for the fact of you sharing it freely. As it is from the perspective of a cat (in first person), children could use this technique to practice writing from different points of view.

How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night?I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. The punctuation, repetition and use of various lengths of sentences enable the book to be an easy yet interesting read, and therefore can be used to help children develop their writing skills. If you like this book, here are some other books you might enjoy - including the further adventures of Tuffy the Killer Cat. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year; and Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize.