Stone Age Boy

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English Year 3 & Year 4​: Understand what they read by explaining the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; identifying main ideas and summarising these; and identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning. I love how the main character was influenced by his Stone Age friend into becoming an archaeologist as an adult! He learned along with the reader which made the story feel like a much more personal and relatable experience. The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC . The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Look at the illustrations of the animals on the inside covers. Can you find out more about them? How many of them are still alive today?

Look at the illustrations of the animals on the inside covers. Use these (and other images if you can find them) to create your own pictures. Ancient Egypt code breaker worksheet](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ancient-egypt-worksheet-11874580) Then it was warm. Then hot. Then cold again. Once that was out of the way humans discovered farming and began to settle down in villages. This all happened during the… during the Stone Age… excuse me… stop! Evidence from elsewhere in Europe shows that people living in caves decorated their walls with pictures of animals . Carvings found on cave walls show giant bulls, stags, horses, bison and birds. In the warm periods between the Ice Ages, Britain became as hot as Africa is today! Elephants, hippos, rhinos and hyenas all moved north through Europe to live in Britain.

Don’t worry about that, he’s just saying pleased to meet you. These early Britons were hunter-gatherers. They used flint tools to hunt animals, like deer and mammoths. At one point in the story, the stone age people have a celebration with music and dancing. Can you see the instruments that they are using? Can you find out about stone age instruments? How were they made? How were they played? The book ‘Stone Age Boy’ is perfect to introduce children to the Stone Age in an engaging and child friendly way. Learn even more about this fascinating period in history with the facts below.

During the Ice Ages, Britain was covered by ice and snow . Herds of mammoths, reindeer and woolly rhinoceroses roamed across the snow and brown bears sheltered in caves. a literacy/English unit of work with planning and resources based on Satoshi Kitamura's book, Stone Age Boy. Satoshi Kitamura's Stone Age Boy is something of a modern classic of children's literature. With its gently unfolding storyline, vivid language and lovely supporting illustrations, it is the perfect thing for engaging the interest of your KS2 class in a variety of topics including but not limited to English and History. The use of ellipses throughout helps build interest and suspense which really drew the children in and made room for plenty of predictions.It’s called the Bronze Age because people discovered how to use metals like bronze for the first time. Around 6,500 years ago, a change took place in the way people lived: hunter-gatherers settled in one place and kept animals and grew crops, although they still hunted wild animals when the chance presented itself. Pupils could be asked to make a list of the ways life in the New Stone Age was different to life in the Mesolithic period: did it change a little or a lot?

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about 'Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills. To help our customers achieve a LIFE/work balance and understand their differing needs by providing resources of outstanding quality and choice alongside excellent customer support.​Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you. Ever wondered what prehistoric Britain was like? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. Use the first two sentences of the book as the starting point for your own story. What happens when you trip and fall ‘down, down, down’? Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire . After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat. But the next day they had to start finding food again! Can you find out about other extinct species? When did they live? What caused their extinction? How are they similar / different to other species alive today? The ending was my absolute favourite with the picture and a simple sentence as it had so much impact and drove home the idea that cave paintings were discovered by historians many years later and can be used as evidence. It was also just so bittersweet and lovely as it reminded us that Om really did exist!