Send for a Superhero!

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Now the Incredibly-Big-Strong-Green Man is sent for. He has some success in ripping bits off the Vacuum monster, but the monster retaliates by ripping the Green Man's trousers off. The superhero beats a hasty retreat, red cheeked and clutching his privates. What features of comic strips can you find in the story (e.g. panels, captions, speech / thought bubbles)? Unfortunately, Dad is too easily fooled - his story has not really sent little Emily and Elmer to sleep, they're just pretending. And so, Dad, like so many million dads before and after him, will just have to continue reading storybooks to kids until they fall asleep for real.

There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Common Exception Words

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Explore our Event Calendar to find educational events throughout the entire year. Each event includes: Veteran children’s-book writer Rosen proves he knows what kids like and what they ARE like. … Although this approach has been used before, rarely has it been executed with such hilarious results. Topic Guides – Explore our topic guides and discover teaching ideas, resources, facts, videos and books that will help you to teach your children about a wide range of topics and themes. I've always been a fan of books about books (I even have a shelf designated for them here on Goodreads), so I figured I would love this book. And I did...sort of.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. Images to Inspire – A huge collection of inspirational images that can be used as the starting point for learning. Each picture is accompanied by a writing prompt, inference questions and related activity ideas! This is a three-sessionspelling seed for the book Send for a Superhero by Michael Rosen. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014. McEwen's mixed-media illustrations shift from soft, homey scenes into energetic comic-book storytelling mode as the family becomes immersed in the story... The over-the-top superhero drama and pratfall-laden clashes slyly send up familiar comic book tropes, while the mid-story interruptions and diversions involving Emily and Elmer showcase a homey family dynamic that many readers will recognize. Make some new ‘Wanted’ posters for Filth and Vacuum. Can you add more details to describe their crimes?

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Create the storyboard for a film / animation about one of the superheroes in the story (e.g. Extremely Boring Man, Steel Man). Veteran children's-book writer Rosen proves he knows what kids like and what they ARE like. ... Although this approach has been used before, rarely has it been executed with such hilarious results.