Collected Resources

1. Role-play
2. Small world
3. Sensory play
4. Malleable

1. Read The Hundred Decker Bus. Enjoy the story. Notice the different locations the bus journeys to. Identify how/why the bus changes at different stages in the story. Discuss favourites.
2. Display the map from The Hundred Decker Bus (p13-14). Notice it is a stylised aerial view. Identify each location. Help children to select and sequence three different places the bus journeyed to.
3. Unfold the 100-decker bus (p.22). Count the decks and discuss. Then, discuss and sequence which decks children would like to visit and why, e.g. First, I would go to the pool because...
4. Enjoy The Train Ride. Read the first double page aloud but stumble on some words. Ask children to list strategies for reading unfamiliar words (resources). Children use strategies to read the text.
5. Read The Train Ride. Identify what the characters see on the journey. List ideas as words or phrases. Show sequencing words (resources) and model converting the ideas into an oral recount.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: This Is the Way We Cross the Road
Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Remind children the poem is teaching them to cross the road safely. Children perform it together as a class.

Owl and the moon

This is a story about an owl hunting for the moon and eventually finding it! Each page has a few lines of simple decodable text so that children are encouraged to read several sentences.