If you're able, watch the film version of the story starring Tim Hanks. Yours may not but do click through to the You Tube video below to make the most of his lyrical narration. My copy of The Polar Express has a wonderful audio CD of the story narrated by Liam Neeson. What are the wolves thinking? What are they saying to one another? What are they going to do next? This type of activity makes a great short writing opportunity to practise specific skills such as direct speech. Provide children with the picture of the wolves. The story is written in the first person-past tense but try changing the narrative voice so that younger children can rewrite the story – you'll need to model what you'd like them to do: our Modelled Writing post may give you some ideas. 2015 The Polar Express is a thrilling game of skill that will test your agility. They can then write their own stories about a magical journey to the North Pole.įind as many opportunities as possible to stimulate writing by using the text. Freight Cars is the most popular of the 17 model trains categories. Try plotting the narrative with the children and see if they can see similarities between this text and others with a similar structure. The Polar Express is a Voyage and Return story (sometimes called a home-away-home story) – we've written about this narrative form before and have a collection of similar stories on our Pinterest boards. Aidan Chambers called this structure 'Tell me' We have a version of Tell Me in our Graphic Organisers Pack. Focus their attention by asking them to note what they like and dislike, what puzzles them and what patterns they can see in the text.
If you make copies of the pictures you could go on to re-use them for oral sequencing, for story planning and tor writing captions and sentences about the text.ĭepending on the age of the children, either read the story or provide them with time to read the story in small groups. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features © 2021. You could use the classroom visualiser so that the text remains a mystery to the children. Polar Express layout with tracks spiraling up the mountain. Providing the children with copies of the front cover without the title of the book offers opportunities for children to ask questions about the text, to make predictions about the book and for you to create anticipation about the story.Ĭonduct a picture walk of the text. Vintage 1957 Toy Trains/Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine Lemke MINIS N LC4307 VW T3 2er Set ICE/Pizza Car-NEW VINTAGE 1974 REPO LIONEL 1928 TOY TRAINS. With any class the first thing I'd do with this text is make the most of the pictures.
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