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Welcome to Bradford Literature Festival's WELCOME TO BRADFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL’S 10 Books that Changed My Life with JACQUELINE WILSON Age: This is most suitable for UKS2 (aged 9-11) and KS3 (11-14). National Curriculum links: English, Art Supported by CONTENTS The Teaching grid for UKS2 & KS3 can be found on p. 3 Teacher resources can be found on p. 6 2. UKS2 & KS3 ACTIVITY SUGGESTIONS English English Curriculum Organise their ideas effectively for writing. Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing Recommend books that they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices. Learn the conventions of different types of writing, such as the use of the third person in biographies. Teaching Objectives Write a Book Review of a Jacqueline Wilson Book. Write a biography of Jacqueline Wilson Other Curriculum areas Art & Design: Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design Teaching Objectives Draw a character from one of Jacqueline Wilson’s books. A. PRE-EVENT SUGGESTIONS 1. Our Favourite Books by Jacqueline Wilson Gather children together and ask them if they have read any books by Jacqueline Wilson. o Which books did they like the best? o What sort of books were they? . Were they funny books? . Books to do with friendship? . Books to do with family? . Books to do with relationships? . Books set in the past? . Retelling an old story in a new way? o What was the genre of the book/s? Were they: . Fantasy? . Horror? . Romance? . Science Fiction? . Crime and Mystery? . Adventure? . Historical? . Animal? . Sports? Ask children to recommend one book of Jacqueline Wilson’s to the class. o Record their answers on the whiteboard. Ask children to read one of these recommended books. For children familiar with Jacqueline Wilson as them to read a book they have not yet read. 2. Reviewing Books by Jacqueline Wilson Gather children together and introduce the idea of a Book Review. Discuss with the class the different elements including: o The title and author o The Beginning part which includes an overview of the story: . Characters . Setting . Plot or Problem to be solved o The Middle Part includes: . Three main events that help the story move along. o Ending . Resolution/how the problem was solved? . What happened at the end? o Opinions . What did they like about the book? . What did they not like about the book? . Would they recommend it, and to whom? Ask children to write a book review of one of Jacqueline Wilson’s book. B. JACQUELINE WILSON’S TOP TEN BOOKS DIGITAL EVENT. 3. Jacqueline Wilson’s Top Ten Books Join Jacqueline Wilson as she discusses her top ten books. You can find the video here https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23488&preview=true C. POST EVENT ACTIVITIES. 4. All About Jacqueline Wilson Gather children together and ask them what they learned about Jacqueline Wilson in the video. o What are Jacqueline Wilson’s top ten books? . ‘The Enchanted Wood’ Enid Blyton . ‘Ballet Shoes’ Noel Streatfeild . ‘What Katy Did’ Susan Coolidge . ‘The Family from One End Street’ Eve Garnett . ‘Five Children and It’ E Nesbit . ‘The Railway Children’ E Nesbit . ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Anne Frank . ‘I Capture the Castle’ Dodie Smith . ‘The Greengage Summer’ Rumer Godden . ‘Jane Eyre’ Charlotte Brontë Biographies and Autobiographies o Show the children the four minute video from BBC Bitesize by Mr McPartlin here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs8strd o Ask the class what a biography is and what an auto-biography is. What are the similarities? They both: Tell the story of someone’s life Are written in the past tense Follow chronological order (the order in which things actually happened) Are non-fiction . What are the differences? Biographies are: o Written by a person about their own life. o Written in first person (I) Autobiographies are: o Written by a person about someone else’s life. o Written in third person (he/she/they) Introduce the idea of writing a biography of Jacqueline Wilson. Discuss with the class: o Creating a fact file on Jacqueline Wilson o What headings they should include in the biography? . When and where Jacqueline was born, . Her family, parents, siblings etc. Her childhood, . The major events in her life – getting married, divorced etc. How these events affected her . What are her top ten books? . How does she write her books? . Where does she get her inspiration from? . Any other important information about Jacqueline Wilson. Ask children to use books and the internet for research to create a fact file on Jacqueline Wilson. o Children may also like to read her book “Jacky Daydream”, which is an autobiography of Jacqueline Wilson’s childhood. o The Puffin website about Jacqueline Wilson may also be useful https://www.penguin.co.uk/puffin/jacqueline-wilson.html o Jacqueline Wilson also has a Youtube channel here which may be useful https://www.youtube.com/c/JacquelineWilsonBooks/videos 5. Illustrating the Biography Jacqueline Wilson first started working with illustrator Nick Sharratt on the Tracy Beaker Books. Children might like to draw one of the Characters Nick Sharratt created for Jacqueline Wilson’s books: o Diamond from the Hetty Feather series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12WbTPwreE&list=PL9kwtmy0r71lBcLmuNEHRLfVFh14P8PRc&ind ex=3 o Hetty Feather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlSDad29fc o Clover Moon from the Hetty Feather series https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2018/draw- clover-moon-with-nick-sharratt.html o Tracy Beaker in this video from the Scottish Book Trust. Nick draws Tracy Beaker from minute 28.00 to 30.31 minutes https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors-live-on-demand/nick-sharratt 5. Creating a mini-biography Children can start putting their biography together with: o The Fact sheet o The Biography o The drawing 6. Extension work. Children might like to read one of Jacqueline Wilson’s favourite books: o Five Children and It by E Nesbit o What Katy Did Susan Coolidge They might like to the above books with these ones written by Jacqueline Wilson o Four Children and It by Jacqueline Wilson o Katy by Jacqueline Wilson Outcomes Children will Identify facts about Jacqueline Wilson and create a fact sheet. Develop their skills in writing non-fiction. Write a short biography of Jacqueline Wilson Teacher Resources on Jacqueline Wilson Books Videos o Jacqueline Wilson reads a short extract from her book “Four children and It” https://youtu.be/2FHPpY0JHio The Runaway girls Jacqueline reads chapter five of her book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_NmvMH0p4s TES Resources on Jacky Day Dream and Hetty Feather https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/jacqueline-wilson-video-plus-teaching- resources-6185454 Hetty Feather Teaching notes http://www.victorianschool.co.uk/documents/Hetty%20Feather%20Teaching%20No tes.pdf Other Resources by Jacqueline Wilson KS2 Creative Writing Resource Pack with Jacqueline Wilson https://www.puffinschools.co.uk/wp- content/uploads/2020/04/JacquelineWilson_CreativeWriting.pdf KS2 Resource Pack How to Write a Letter by Jacqueline Wilson https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/how-to-write-a-brilliant-letter- by-jacqueline-wilson.html KS2 Resource Pack How to Write a Story by Jacqueline Wilson https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2018/how-to-write-a-brilliant-story- jacqueline-wilson.html .
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