Let’s leap into the story of Jetty Jumping
by Andrea Rowe
Description
Story reading of Jetty Jumping, Sunday Skating or Castle Crashing, text connection activities and author Q & A.
Andrea shares an engaging and lively discussion about the Jetty Jumping series to enrich class connection with the text:
- Engaging story read
- Author and illustrator roles
- Where ideas wash in
- Meet my story muses - marine critters in the mysterious ripples
- Main character energy – who gets to be in the story, and how
- Let’s talk text
- Words and phrases and sentences that captured your attention
- Alliteration, onomatopoeia, active verbs and other fun text to try out
- Step in, step out, step back from the story
- Have you asked your imagination what makes a good story?
- The ‘what if this happened next’ idea
- Ask an author anything
Details
Audience
Primary School
Duration
60 minutes
Requirements
Data Projector, whiteboard. File formats are PC and I bring my own laptop and spare USB Internet connection not required