Discussing a section of 'The Borrowers'

English

In this unit, pupils learn to use a range of fronted adverbials and adverbial clauses to add descriptive detail. In 'A Christmas Carol', pupils will learn to write a short narrative from a film. 

In 'The Firework Maker's Daughter', pupils developed the skill of writing speech, including using adverbs to describe the speech in further detail. In this unit, pupils will learn to use a range of fronted adverbials and adverbial clauses to add descriptive detail.

'The Borrowers': narrative writing and reading

Pod is "seen" by a human "bean" upstairs.

What is the main problem encountered at the beginning of the build-up?

True or false? Hearing about the upstairs and what had happened to Eggletina scared Arrietty.

a sloping channel or slide used for transporting things lower

expressed an objection to what someone said or did

Match the vocabulary to the correct definition.

She read and wrote in her diary every day.

She helped with lots of house chores for weeks.

How did Arrietty show her mother she was “good” in order to prepare for her first borrowing expedition?

What clues can we search for in the text to infer how the different characters felt about Arrietty going borrowing?

to pull out the key information and ideas from a text

there is a building of action and suspense

the setting and characters are introduced

What happens in the build-up of a narrative?

They are given lots of gifts by the humans.

They borrow the items they need from the humans.

They buy the items they need from the shop.

How do the Clock family survive underground?

through a hole at the bottom of a hallway clock

to draw greater conclusions or meaning from clues within the text

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