Use Dr Seuss’ classic picturebook to cover literacy and PSHE in UKS2, with activities that would make the perfect project for Y6 leavers, giving them a chance to:
Articulate their hopes and ambitions, and identify some of the attitudes, behaviours and skills they might need to achieve them
Enjoy a shared reading-for-pleasure experience and build on it
Interrogate text and pictures to extend their understanding and discover different meanings
Explore aspects of challenge, opportunity and change through drama, creative writing and art
Develop their understanding of story structure
Gain insight into their own emotions and those of others
Explore quotations and choose one they find meaningful
National Curriculum English Programme of Study links
Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
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