Lizzie and the Birds

Teacher Guide and 5 ReadersTeacher Guide:The Teacher Guide includes detailed plans of a wide variety of different activities, with examples of teacher input and modelling, as well as photographs of pupil's writing and classroom displays.

It demonstrates how Lizzie and the Birds can be used to inspire pupils to use their imaginations and their English skills in inventive and engaging ways.

Features:Detailed teaching plansOral language activitiesWide variety of writing activitiesLearning activitiesReading comprehensionsExamples of pupils' work and displaysPhotocopiable activity pagesGrammar and punctuation activitiesCross-curricular ideasDownloadable resources This Teacher Guide was created by Lizzie and the Birds author, Dawn Robertson, who works across England as a consultant helping pupils and teachers to deliver book-based learning. Initially, she produced a large bank of activities and resources, which were trialled in a variety of schools, with children of all ages. Teachers and pupils were then asked to give their opinions about which activities they thought were the most effective and challenging and should be included in this Teacher Guide.

Dawn listened carefully to this feedback as was keen for the materials to be as comprehensive as possible, enabling everybody to use them effectively in the classroom. Reader:Lizzie and her dad have just moved to the countryside.

Lizzie loves her new home but she feels lonely as she has left all her old friends behind.

She yearns for new ones and dreams about what they will be. Lizzie and the Birds is a wonderful story that will engage young and old. Helps develop:Oral language skillsWriting skillsGrammar and punctuationReading skills Accompanying Teacher Guide with detailed classroom activities is also available. This many layered picture book explores the themes of love, friendship and trust.

Enter a rag-taggle group of tweeting, squawking birds who could be the answer to all of Lizzie's problems, if only she can persuade her cat, Buster not to eat them, and her dad to share their house with them.

What could be easier! Can her brand new feathery friends, like Rainbow Bird, Cheeky, Chif and Chaf, Egglet and Crow, really help Lizzie save their beloved tree and fill her life with fun?

Well, what would you do to save your friends?This gentle story is packed with humour, lots of chirping heroes, bird-banter and the message that true friendship comes in many different shapes and sizes!