Boy In The Tower

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Polly Ho-Yen was working as a primary school teacher in London when she was inspired to write Boy in the Tower. She wanted to create a story with children like the ones in her classroom at the centre of it: a fantastical story based in the reality that the children knew, in the hope that they would relate to the characters. This book is totally amazing, I am reading it at the moment and I love it. It is mysterious and exciting, even if you found out one thing you always need to know more 😁😄. It is also very scary and deep (it makes you think a lot) There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Word List Words Now their tower isn’t safe anymore. Ade and his mum are trapped and there’s no way out . . . Links: A whole English teaching sequence linked to the fantastic book Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen (Short-listed for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Awards 2015).

Ideal for Year 4, Year 5 or Year 6 children. The plot is set in a dystopian future and is a well written story about friendship and overcoming adversity. It also sensitively covers the subject of mental illness (at an appropriate level for primary children) in one of the characters. When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way.' When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way. This book sounds like a straightforward science-fiction tale, in which Day of the Triffids style plants consume buildings and cast out deadly spores. In fact, it reads more like a fable about friendship, loyalty and bravery, beautifully told in the voice of a lonely young boy struggling to make sense of all that is going on around him - from the extraordinary events he sees from his window, to his mother's illness. Taking place in a believable urban, multicultural environment that will be familiar to many young readers, Polly Ho-Yen's debut is an impressively moving and thought-provoking story that will touch children and adults alike.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. This is above all a story about friendship, about resilience and loyalty. Old-fashioned values in a daunting world. I think you'd like this if you enjoyed Valentine Joe by Rebecca Stevens or The Last Wild by Piers Torday. She’s still writing stories and though she doesn’t teach now, she still visit schools … only now they’re all over the country.

They tell each other everything and Ade loves how much Gaia knows about the plants and world around them. Their lives begin to change when the Bluchers arrive.First, the buildings fell. Then the people on the streets. No one could explain why until they found the Bluchers.