The Tin Forest

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The Tin Forest will provide a starting point for a wealth of writing. Children can devise stories set in wild places (see plan link below); contrast settings of the wasteland and the forest; empathise with the character and write in role; and write persuasively about caring for the environment or explain how plant lifecycles work. If would be useful for your class to be able to recognise the use of commas for lists and fronted adverbials. This wonderful picture book is for anyone who has hope and believes that there is a way. Or for those who believe that our world is without hope and so why care...

The Tin Forest was once a Reading Rainbow book. (Can you hear the theme song in your head? If not, listen now! Don’t you feel happier?) Kau bisa menanyakannya pada Sang Kakek. Sudah lama ia tinggal di antara sampah-sampah besi. Sepi dan sendiri.Hosted by actor LeVar Burton, Reading Rainbow ran on PBS from 1983-2006. The episode on which The Tin Forest was read ran in 2002. The subject is the aftermath of 9/11, specifically, what happened to the students who attended PS 234 in Manhattan. The theme of the episode, like the theme of the book, is hope. We have taken some of the lovely vocabulary used in the book and created a teaching resource for it aimed at Year 2 / Year 3. Didukung oleh ilustrasi semi hitam putih yang keren, buku ini tak hanya cocok dibaca anak-anak, tetapi juga orang dewasa.

Your class. must be able to punctuate the passage/sentences by adding in capital letters and full stops. The Tin Forest by Helen Ward is a beautiful and poetic fable written about an old man who lives in a Tin Forest, otherwise known as a rubbish dump of unloved things nobody wanted anymore. The old man wishes for a better place to live. With his own initiative, will he make this junkyard into a wonderland? There was once a wide, windswept place, near nowhere and close to forgotten that was filled with all the things that no one wanted. The story follows an old man who tidies the rubbish in a junkyard and dreams of a better place. With faith, ingenuity and hard work, he transforms it into a wonderland in this poetic modern fable.

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I also love the story’s real forest, illustrated first in a book the old man reads, then in his dream, then in isolated patches, then in full color. The primary color is yellow, and it stands in stark contrast to the metallic gray of the tin forest. For me, the art of this book works better than the text. I think I would prefer it as a wordless picture book. Question 10 talks about his wish. It could be two answers and hopefully children will recognise that. The story is quite simple, but the lessons contained within are quite valuable. It's important to see the potential beauty in all things and also that it is possible to make your dreams come true, if at first the solution is not quite what you expect. We have asked a range of questions from retrieval to inference and encourage your class to reflect on more implicit information. Your class must complete the passage by adding in adjective using their knowledge or the word bank. They will then think of descriptions of the old man at the beginning of the story using explicit information like appearance etc. or deeper information linked to his thoughts, feelings and what type of a person he is, always looking for concise explanations too.