Stig of the Dump: 60th Anniversary Edition (A Puffin Book)

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Making inferences and predictions about characters is also an important part of the 2014 national curriculum for English. The guidelines state that children in KS2 should learn to: Looking for more resources from Puffin? Take a look at our Stigs Den Colouring Sheet. Or, explore another brilliant title using our 'The Great Dream Robbery' Word Mat here! What is ‘Stig of the Dump’ about? In this activity, your Year 3 / Year 4 class will read the sentences and insert the words from the word bank to complete each sentence. I thought that Stig of the dump is a very good book for children to read. This specific book has been chosen in my school for a challenge for the above average readers. I have really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone of any age !!! I think a huge difference coming to this as an adult rather than a child, is that I was fearful for Stig all along. My knowledge of the adult world meant that surely his time in the chalk pit was limited. I kept anticipating discovery and removal. Bear in mind that in Australia, Indigenous children were still stolen from families into the 1970s and this kind of knowledge overshadowed my enjoyment. Additionally I was madly curious about Stig. Who was he? What was his story? Children might accept him on face value, but I was uncomfortable until the midsummer resolution.

By looking at sentence starters, your class will improve their knowledge and be able to have greater variety when writing independently. The Snargets call themselves ‘the Lone Ranger’, ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘William Tell’. Can you find out about these characters and explain who they are?Stig is extremely inventive. Together, Barney and Stig build a window, build a chimney, fight off some house robbers, help a zoo capture a leopard that has escaped. One of the things that the story focuses on is the pleasure to be obtained from building and making things and how much can be done with what is at hand. This is even more pertinent today than it was in 1963 when the book was published given the current emphasis on recycling. Think about what happens to Stig after the end of the story. Where does he go next? Will he ever meet Barney again? Your class are challenged to read through the extract and look for spelling mistakes, highlight them and write the correct spelling. Geraldine McCaughrean's much anticipated sequel to Peter Pan finds Wendy and the lost boys now grown-up and leading respectable lives in London.

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Draw a picture of the dump at different times of day? in the bright morning sunlight, as the sun is going down and / or at night under the light of the moon.

David Clive King was born in Richmond, Surrey, England in 1924 but spent most of his childhood in Ash, a small village some 30 miles from London on the Kentish North Downs, where he and his three brothers used to play in a disused chalk pit. He was a boarder at King's School, Rochester at a time when every boy expected to be called up for the armed services in World War Two, and he opted for the Navy. This gave him seagoing experience that took him to the Arctic, Australia and Asia. In this case, I found I still really enjoyed it, although it held a couple of surprises. I had completely forgotten it was set a few towns away from where I live, for starters, which isn’t something you’d think I’d forget but my memory is famously awful. (Sometimes I wonder why I bother reading at all, my recall is so bad, but then I remember it’s because I enjoy it at the time.) Choose one of the main events of the story and write a diary entry about it from Barney’s point of view.This is one of the few books that I remember very clearly from my childhood. Thanks to this book, I used to make camps in the garden with bits that I could find in the shed and hidden in corners. It is exactly the kind of imaginative play that is encouraged now. Stig of the dump teaches resourcefulness and highlights how wasteful we are as a species. We should all be a bit more like Stig. I wish every child (and adult!) would read it. Five stars for the memories of my teachers reading it to my class at school! Yes, we heard it in both our first and second years in elementary, but it was so intriguing I did not mind. Who was Stig? Where did he come from? Where was his family? Could he time travel? How? Stig of the Dump Story Writing PowerPoint - This fantastic PowerPoint looks at how the author has written the chapters of Stig of the Dump and challenges children to write their own chapter that could slip into the book. A great way to encourage reading and responding. Stig of the Dump is published by Puffin. Its written by Clive King and illustrated by Edward Ardizzonne. The audiobook is read by Tony Robinson. Read more at www.penguin.co.uk/puffin