English - The HobbitThis is one week’s worth of English lessons to work through with your child, based on the book ‘The Hobbit’. This is not a book we would usually read with KS1 but it was to link in with our theatre production visit.

Highlighted in green is the reading skill that that lesson focuses on. Whilst completing the writing section of the lessons ensure that children are correctly punctuating their work.

Year 1 children are expected to use capital letters, full stops and spaces between words, where as Year 2 should also be able to use commas in lists and apostrophes, as well as question and exclamation marks where necessary.

There is a longer piece of writing at the end of the unit.

Lesson 1 - Inference

Can I infer some facts about the book by looking at the front cover?

On the next slide are some front covers from The Hobbit.

Talk about the covers with your grown up, and then in your exercise book write 3 clues that these covers give us about what happens in the story.

Lesson 2 - Prediction

Can I predict what will happen next in The Hobbit?

Parents read this section of the Hobbit to your children (or strong year 2 readers can have a go themselves) until you reach the red underlined section.

What do you think is going to happen next in the story? Write a few sentences in your book as a prediction.

Lesson 3 - Retrieval

Can I retrieve information from the text?

Re-read the section from the previous slides and answer the questions below in your exercise books.

1) What shape is the door of a hobbit hole?2) What is a hobbit?3) Who is Gandalf?4) What colour is Bilbo’s front door?5) Why does Bilbo not like adventures?

Lesson 4 - Inference

Can I infer things about the story by looking at the pictures?

Have a look at the pictures on the next few slides. These are pictures from an illustrated

version of the Hobbit. Talk about these pictures with your grown up or a sibling.

What/who can you see?

What does it tell you about the story?

What do you think is happening?

What do you think happens at the end of the story?

Now look at the last picture in the book? Were you right? Have you changed your mind? Can you tell from the picture if you were right or wrong?

Why/why not?

Lesson 5 - Writing Lesson

Can I write a diary entry from the point of view of Bilbo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jpw-do4MSQ

Watch this clip:

What is a diary entry?

What would Bilbo remember the day after he went down the river?

Jot down some ideas in your exercise book to help you.

Whilst you write your diary entry we would like to see:

Year 1: Capital letters for the beginning of sentences and I, full stops, finger spaces, ‘and’.

Year 2: All of the above, commas in a list, exciting adjectives, examples of coordinating conjunctions (and, so, but), examples of subordinating conjunctions (if, when, because).

Can’t wait to read them!