Oliver's Vegetables

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Using the illustrations as a guide, children can tell the story in their own words. Talk about the book

Make a list of thecharacters in all three stories under the headings Adultsand Children. Ask which adults would be most fun to be withand why. Ask questions about the child characters, for example: Which ones are happiest? Who would make the bestfriend?

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W1 to secureidentification spelling and reading of initial, final and medialletter sounds in simple words; Talk about the vegetables you see when you go shopping, in the market, greengrocer or supermarket. Perhaps buy and try something new! Do some cooking Help children in their Understanding the World ELGs as they learn about plants and food. They can get a better understanding of nature, plus learn about where food comes from! Why not encourage Expressive Arts and Design skills too with Colouring Activities? Planning with Oliver's Vegetables Read the story aloud allowing time to talk about what is happening and the different vegetables as you do. Join in Akhila and Keenan todraw a picture of their own character and think of a sentence abouthim/her. With 1.1 support of ta keenan and Akhila to write asentence. Ta to support sounding out of words.

Tell ch that I amgoing to read one of these three stories again. Ask indv ch tochoose a favourite one and give a reason for this choice. Read themost popular story again and ask the ch if they notice anything newin the words or illustrations. Adult to help extendthe ch instead of big what other word could we use? Look at theworking lit wallRead the storyOlivers vegetables to the class. Ask who is the story about? Whathappens in the story? Use and explain the terms setting maincharacter and events. Invite them to retell the story using wordssuch as first next at the end T to walk around ansupervise retelling and note down group that worked the bestimaginatively and in retelling the story to act in theplenary

Remind ch they canuse the pronoun he or she instead of the name. Ch to use workinglit walls to write exciting descriptions. TA Bring the classtogether and ask pairs to take turns to tell the class about theirpartners chosen character stimulate responses to each othersmemories by asking questions sch as why have you chosen thischaracter? What is special about him/her? Bring the classtogether and look at the chs drawings Re-read olivers vegetables orthe extract discuss the story using the words character setting andevent.Talk about what children liked or didn’t like about this story. Did they have any questions about it? Watch the story draw pictures oftheir chosen characters an adult and a child and think of 5 wordsto describe each one. ch to then write a sentences about eachcharacter using the descriptive words in an interesting way. Adultto help extend ch grandpa was an old man what else could we add avery old man with long grey hair! When you read the story again your child could join in perhaps by being Oliver, saying eg, ‘I don’t eat vegetables. I only eat chips.’ ‘That was good’ and ‘That was very good.’ etc Tell the story