Developing responses to 'Swallow's Kiss' through rich discussions
I can develop my own response to 'Swallow's Kiss'.
Developing responses to 'Swallow's Kiss' through rich discussions
I can develop my own response to 'Swallow's Kiss'.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Swallow's Kiss has themes of empathy, friendship and respect.
- Blessing demonstrates lots of positive emotions and character traits in the story.
- Throughout the story, Blessing makes a wish for others by touching the mark on her lip, made when she was a baby.
- Making connections and recommendations can enhance the reading experience and widen the reader’s understanding of texts.
Keywords
Character traits - Character traits are the special qualities that make a character in a story unique and interesting.
Empathy - Empathy is the ability to experience and understand other people’s feelings and points of view.
Connection - How a text relates to a reader, another text or the wider world can be called a connection.
Recommendation - A recommendation is a suggestion for a text that is well-suited to a reader’s age and their interests.
Common misconception
Pupils may make a wish for themselves personally in Task A.
Ask pupils to consider the impact that they could have on their local community and wider world when discussing their wishes.
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2021 Pop Up Projects edition of ‘Swallow’s Kiss’, written by Sita Brahmachari with illustrations by Jane Ray, for this lesson.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Blessing's baby brother
Blessing's mother
a friend Blessing meets at a refugee centre
Blessing's father
an adult who walks Blessing to her mother's work
Exit quiz
6 Questions
the ability to understand other people’s feelings and point-of-view
how a text relates to a reader, another text or the wider world
a suggestion for a text that is suited to a reader’s age and interests