Chapter 1: the Coming of the Iron Man

The Iron Man Guided Reading suggestions

Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man

Possible activities: 1. New words table 2. The Iron Man’s eyes glow different colours at different points in the story. What do you think these different colours mean? (AF3) 3. Draw the Iron Man as he looks at the end of the second paragraph on page 6 (AF2) 4. Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

Possible discussion questions: 1. At the end of the chapter there was one part the Iron Man couldn’t find. What was it? (AF2) (an ear) 2. Page 3, the sentence ‘Night passed.’ Discuss this sentence, its use and effect. (AF5) 3. Page 3, the sentence ‘Just before dawn, as the darkness grew blue and the shapes of the rocks separated from each other,’ Discuss this sentence, its use and effect. (AF5) 4. The seagulls think the hand is a strange kind of crab. How does the author help with this analogy? (AF6) (darted, jabbed, slowly crept, scuttling away, among the rocks, ran forward suddenly, eye peered out)

Chapter 2: The Return of the Iron Man

Possible activities: 1. Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

Possible discussion questions: 1. What do people feel about the Iron Man? How do you know? (AF5/6) 2. Find evidence from the text to support your ideas (AF5/6) 3. Why do the farmers want to trap him? (AF3) 4. How does Hogarth manage to trap him? (AF2) 5. Why does Hogarth feel sorry at the end of the chapter? (AF3)

Chapter 3: What’s to be done with the Iron Man?

Possible activities: 1. Draw a picture of the family on the picnic just before they see the iron hand (page 29) (AF2) 2. The Iron Man’s eyes glow different colours at different points in the story. What do you think these different colours mean? (AF3) Compare your table with the one you completed for chapter 1. Were you right about the colours? 3. Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

Possible discussion questions: 1. How does the author describe the Iron Man when he emerges from the hill? 2. What is Hogarth’s attitude towards him? Why? (AF3) 3. How did the Iron Man’s appearance change once at the scrap yard? (AF2) Why do you think that was? (AF3) Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man

Possible activities: 1. Draw a picture of the space-bat-angel-dragon after it has landed on Earth, using an atlas to make your drawing accurate and label the geographical features. 2. The author compares the space-bat-angel-dragon to a number of geographical features. Using an atlas or the internet, find out: a) how high it is. b) how long its tongue is. c) the size of its stomach 3. Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

Possible discussion questions: 1. How does the space-bat-angel-dragon first appear? How does everyone feel about it? What evidence is there in the text to support your ideas? (AF2/3/5) 2. Re-read page 38. Discuss the style of writing and the effect this has on the reader (AF5) 3. How does the space bat angel dragon react to people waging war on it? (AF3) 4. When Hogarth first asks the Iron Man to help, he shakes his head. How does Hogarth convince the Iron Man to help? (AF3) 5. What do you think the Iron Man’s ‘stupendous idea’ is? (AF3)

Chapter 5: The Iron Man’s Challenge

Possible activities: 1. Write a newspaper report on the challenge between the Iron Man and the space bat angel dragon 2. Ask the children to think about the whole book and to list the ways in which it is like a modern day fairy tale. (AF7) 3. Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

Possible discussion questions: 1. What words would you use to describe the Iron Man and the space bat angel dragon? 2. How does the space bat angel dragon behave at the beginning of the chapter? What words does the author use to describe his attitude? 3. How has his changed by page 53? What words/phrases does the author use to explain this? 4. How does the author describe the change in the space-bat-angel-dragon after he first comes back from the sun – what do you think he is feeling now? 5. What features of this extract are similar to a fairy tale? (AF7) The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 1: New words table Verb, noun, Meaning? Page Word adjective, adverb? (guess from context)

1 brink

2 swayed

3 wheeling

4 gleefully

5 scuttling

7 torso

The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 1: New words table Verb, noun, Meaning? Page Word adjective, adverb? (guess from context)

1 brink

2 swayed

3 wheeling

4 gleefully

5 scuttling

7 torso The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 2: The Iron Man’s eyes glow different colours at different points in the story. What do you think these different colours mean? (AF3) where in the story colour meaning At the top of the cliff white Page 2

infra-red

The eye and the hand get together blue Page 4 In the sea red Page 8

The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 2: The Iron Man’s eyes glow different colours at different points in the story. What do you think these different colours mean? (AF3) where in the story colour meaning At the top of the cliff white Page 2

infra-red

The eye and the hand get together blue Page 4 In the sea red Page 8

green The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 3: Draw the Iron Man as he looks at the end of the second paragraph on page 6 (AF2)

The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 3: Draw the Iron Man as he looks at the end of the second paragraph on page 6 (AF2)

The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 3: Draw the Iron Man as he looks at the end of the second paragraph on page 6 (AF2) The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 4: Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 4: Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

The Iron Man Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man Activity 4: Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3) The Iron Man Chapter 2: The Return of the Iron Man Activity 1: Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

The Iron Man Chapter 2: The Return of the Iron Man Activity 1: Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3)

The Iron Man Chapter 2: The Return of the Iron Man Activity 1: Write a one-paragraph summary of the chapter (AF3) The Iron Man Chapter 3: What’s to be done with the Iron Man? Activity 1: Draw a picture of the family on the picnic just before they see the iron hand (page 29) (AF2)

The Iron Man Chapter 3: What’s to be done with the Iron Man? Activity 1: Draw a picture of the family on the picnic just before they see the iron hand (page 29) (AF2)

The Iron Man Chapter 3: What’s to be done with the Iron Man? Activity 1: Draw a picture of the family on the picnic just before they see the iron hand (page 29) (AF2) The Iron Man Chapter 3: What’s to be Done with the Iron Man? Activity 2: The Iron Man’s eyes glow different colours at different points in the story. What do you think these different colours mean? (AF3) How does the author help with what the colours mean this time? Compare your table with the one you completed for chapter 1. Were you right about the colours? where in the story colour meaning Emerging from the earth glaring red Page 30 Leaning among the huge branches soft blue Page 31 When he heard the ‘clonk’ darker blue Page 32

purple

The Iron Man Chapter 3: What’s to be Done with the Iron Man? Activity 2: The Iron Man’s eyes glow different colours at different points in the story. What do you think these different colours mean? (AF3) How does the author help with what the colours mean this time? Compare your table with the one you completed for chapter 1. Were you right about the colours? where in the story colour meaning Emerging from the earth glaring red Page 30 Leaning among the huge branches soft blue Page 31 When he heard the ‘clonk’ darker blue Page 32

purple

red white

The Iron Man Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man Activity 1 Draw a picture of the space-bat-angel-dragon after it has landed on Earth, using an atlas to make your drawing accurate and label the geographical features.

The Iron Man Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man Activity 1 Draw a picture of the space-bat-angel-dragon after it has landed on Earth, using an atlas to make your drawing accurate and label the geographical features. The Iron Man Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man Activity 2 The author compares the space-bat-angel-dragon to a number of geographical features. Using an atlas or the internet, find out: a) how high it is. b) how long its tongue is. c) the size of its stomach

The Iron Man Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man Activity 2 The author compares the space-bat-angel-dragon to a number of geographical features. Using an atlas or the internet, find out: a) how high it is. b) how long its tongue is. c) the size of its stomach

The Iron Man Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man Activity 2 The author compares the space-bat-angel-dragon to a number of geographical features. Using an atlas or the internet, find out: a) how high it is. b) how long its tongue is. c) the size of its stomach The Iron Man Chapter 5: The Iron Man’s Challenge Activity 1 Write a newspaper report on the challenge between the Iron Man and the space-bat-angel-dragon

The Iron Man Chapter 5: The Iron Man’s Challenge Activity 1 Write a newspaper report on the challenge between the Iron Man and the space-bat-angel-dragon