Katie Morag's Island Stories (Katie Morag, 8)

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While you’re teaching this topic, you can use these colourful display posters to decorate your classroom. They feature key characters and settings such as Liam, Grannie, the Redburn Bridge, and the Post Office. Jaine Lumsden, Artistic Evaluation: Katie Morag at the Citizens, Scottish Arts Council, 20 October 2005

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Romance has been brewing on the island between Neilly Beag and Granma Mainland and everyone is thrilled when they announce that they are to be married. Everyone, that is, except Grannie Island. For some reason that Katie Morag can't fathom her granny is NOT happy at all.The CILIP Kate Greenway Medal: Nominations for 2008". Archived from the original on 16 May 2012 . Retrieved 18 January 2011. The book is set on a fictional island called the Isle of Struay so children can actually use their map skills and locate the island on a map. This makes it more real for them to work and develop their learning. The book has a map at the beginning of the book which shows where the different places in the Isle of Struay is. It also uses a lot of illustrations which is really good as children can see and understand all about the island. A stage adaption was created by Lisa Grindall for Mull Theatre in 2005, based on characters and setting from the books, with a new story and songs. After a successful tour of smaller venues in Argyll and the Highlands followed by a week at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in 2005, [26] [27] [28] [29] the production was revived as a Christmas show at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews in 2007, [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] and toured again in 2008. [35] [36] [37]

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An Eye on the Hebrides: An illustrated journey (Canongate 1989 / Birlinn 2009), a six-month-long odyssey through the Hebrides, visiting forty different islands from Arran to Lewis. [14] Gavin Docherty, Children’s TV bosses search for the real-life Katie Morag, Scottish Daily Express, 21 February 2013 Little Door Books was officially launched as an independent publisher in 2016. We work collaboratively with established and emerging authors and illustrators, offering them greater input in the creation of their high-quality, exciting, and ultimately b … I have seen this book used with a key stage 2 class over a variety of subjects. The class were weeks away from a summer fair, and taking the character Mrs Bayview and her garden as a starting point they planned a flower sale.This book is brilliant to read to children as it contains humour which both adults and children will enjoy(such as Katie and Grandma Island using Grandma Mainland's hair tint and rollers on the sheep!) It also has beautiful large illustrations with a lot going on to discuss. Below are some of the characters in the Katie Morag series of books, which may feature in our Book Review Sheet: This Katie Morag book allows for children aged between 6 and 9 to engage fantastically with geography and also relationships. The book is set on the fictional Isle of Strauy, based on the Scottish Western Isle's. The illustration within the book can get children, especially those without much travel experience, to experience vocabulary that would otherwise be difficult to relate to.

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Mark Brown, Christmas show review: Peter Pan and Katie Morag, The Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2007 Other cross curricular activities may include: map drawing/ food tech; making oatcakes/ exploring different cultures and music. You can use this PowerPoint to highlight similarities and differences between the two islands, one real and the other fictional. Ask children to consider what it might be like to live in a place where the primary school has only two part-time teachers, and there are at most eight students in a class. QCA Geography Year 2 Unit 3: An Island Home, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 2000. As of January 2011, a Google search for KS1+"Katie+Morag"+"An+Island+Home" finds almost 3,400 hitsStephen Fraser, Katie Morag gets politically correct, Scotland on Sunday, 18 July 1999. Accessed via NewsBank This resource is a perfect fit for First Level Curriculum for Excellence Pupils. It is connected to the Experience and Outcome, “I can convey information, describe events or processes, share my opinions or persuade my reader in different ways. (LIT 1-28a / LIT 1-29a)”. This resource has been made in line with Curriculum for Excellence at Early Level Experiences and Outcomes, so you can be confident that it supports learning for relevant Literacy and English benchmarks. In England a short National Curriculum Key Stage 1 Geography unit for six- and seven-year-olds, called "An island home", has been linked to the series and in particular the book Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers. [10] The book Katie Morag and the New Pier has also been used as a peg to discuss how communities can gain and lose from change. [11] The most recent book in the series, Katie Morag and the Dancing Class, was a nominee for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2008, [12] which is awarded for an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature.