Sharing a Shell

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Look on a map and find the location of your nearest beach. How would you get there? How long would the journey take? The cover gave a great starting discussion with the pupils, stimulating their imagination and comprehension. The "bristleworm" was given many names before we started the book. I struggled with the word "anemone" a tongue twister for me but he was called the purple blob so made life easier for me.

Create some puppets of the crab, anemone and bristle worm. Could you use these to perform the story to an audience? Make a video to retell the story. Can you include pictures, narration, music and sound effects? Watch this example for inspiration:

How is glitter used in the illustrations? Think about the different materials that artists can use and try to use them in different ways. With her 2004 picture book Sharing a Shell British children's author Julia Donaldson has a hermit crab busily searching on the beach and in tidal pools for a new home as his/her older abode is no longer big enough. And upon finding a new and suitably spacious shell in which to live, a sea anemone comes along and asks to share the hermit crab's new place of residence with the promise to protect the crab (and of course also the shell) from predators, and then a passing bristleworm also asks, offering to keep the shell clean ad tidy in return (and with the crab quite readily agreeing to basically having two permanent roommates). But after a period of time a bigger shell is once again needed, and while at first the hermit carb, sea anemone and bristleworm squabble amongst themselves and end up going their separate ways, at the end of Sharing a Shell, the bristleworm finds a new and larger shell, and crab, sea anemone and bristleworm once again move in together.

Yine de hem paylasim hem de arabuluculukla ilgili cok guzel bir konu islenmis. Alip cocugunuza siz okuyabilirsiniz. 3-4 yas araligindan 1. Sinifa dek bu kitap alinabilir. Turkcesi icin, siz okursaniz daha iyi olacagindan, 4-5-6 yaslar icin oneririm. Sonra kitapliginda kalabilir ve artik hikayeyi bildigjnden anlamina yogunlasabilmek icin zaman zaman kendisi yatmadan once okumalarina dahil edebilir. Look at the use of punctuation in the story. When have full stops, commas, questions marks, exclamation marks (etc.) been used and why?One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).