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

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