#1 Which one would you read? Reluctantly, Skater picked up the unwanted package...

#1 Which one would you read? Reluctantly, Skater picked up the unwanted package... Flightsend arrived on their doormat, in an envelope from the estate agent... That morning after he discovered the tiger, Rob went and stood under the Kentuck y Star Motel sign and waited for the school bus just like it was any other day. His name was Toy Jubilee and he was the largest person that I had ever met. My Grandfather warned me not to hang around with Toy but that made it even more tempting

#2 Reading Detectives: what do you think is happening here? There are two rich kids in our form. Sandra Morris and Ben Fox. They are both snobs. They think they are too good for the rest of us. Their parents have big cars and big houses. Both of them are quiet. They keep themselves to themselves.

#3 What do you think the words could or should be? It was a dark, blustery porcupine in spring, and the charabanc of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out dynamite of the old North sea.

#4 Can you make this sentence better? There was a big car in the street. Charlie looked at it and thought to himself.

#5 Match the meanings and think of some more synonyms sneer: scoff mock delude snigger make fun of jeer HINT: Use them in a sentence to check their meaning

#6 Predict the next line to this using full sentences. Click to reveal the answer... Even Anthony’s eyes lit up a little bit when he heard it was lasagne. I washed the pans. The kitchen started to fill up with lovely, appetizing smells. From inside the oven , you could hear the cheese whistling as it cooked. It was bubbling and squeaking like it was alive.

#7 rearrange these words into a sequence that makes sense. Use the punctuation as well. , . – searchlights barbed wire stars prison fence Christmas in in glitters wire made of

#8 Toolkit it? Why does this work as a piece of suspense? Kevin zipped up the tent flap and we chatted for a while. I could just see my watch hands giving off a strange, green glow. It was creeping towards ten o’clock. Kevin had just told me a joke about a man with a dog that wore shoes when we first heard it. A strange scratching noise coming from just outside the ten. We froze. What on earth could it be? Then it came again. Something or somebody was moving along the side of the tent towards the entrance. It was making a scraping noise like somebody’s last rasping breath! There was no escape. All we could do was lie there waiting. Terrified, both of us ducked our heads deep into our sleeping backs and waited. I could feel my heart thumping

#9 Random Word Reader Feeder! Choose a book. Ask for a number - this gives you a page to turn to. Now ask for a number - this gives you the line. Then ask for a small number - this will select a word. You then have 15 seconds to write a sentence using the selected word. Then use the same sort of process to randomly select two or three words - can they make a sentence using the words... You must use a capital letter and full stop plus some ambitious words or punctuation.

#10 Make sense of the ‘unmake-a-sensible’ Here are four nouns and four verbs. Choose one of each and then a make a sentence that is equally creative and silly. An example has been done for you. engine ruler pencil tree The engine sipped from a cup of silences.The ruler stole a tongue of ideas. The pencil rushed down the stairs and into the garden. sipped stole rushed wished

#11 Connect It! Look at the two sentences. Can you connect them together with powerful connectives? Do you need to change the words to make the sentences more powerful? The camel ate the cakeThe cake was full of dates.

#12 Alliterate an awesome array of amazing animals! Read my example... The tiny tiger tickled the terrified terrapin's two toes with torn tinsel. antelope spider kangaroo baboon donkey fish

#13 Can you make this sentence better? The dog came along the road

#14 Reader Feeders Needer Help! • He runned down the lain. • She was dead frightened. • I just jumpt over the wall. • I ran home, Lucy just walked.

#15 Why oh why did Teddy do it? Extend the sentence. Here’s an example. Teddy closed the curtains. Teddy closed the curtains and the scary shadows disappeared into the moonlight. Now you have a go... Teddy shut the door.

#16 Drop it in! Take a simple sentence and 'drop in' something extra, e.g. adjectives, adverb, a phrase or clause. Don’t drop in too much! Bertie dug a hole.

#17 Creative Connections: How many words can you think of to do with... spaghetti

#18 Disasters: Look at these disastrous situations for Superman! • His tights are in the wash. • The colour in his boxer shorts washes out and now they're pink. • His Mum says to be in by 8.00 and in bed by 9.00. • His Dad tells him not to start fights. • His Gran gives him Kryptonite pants for Christmas. • What would be a disaster for Spiderman?

#19 Can you make this sentence better? The woman ate the stuff.

#21 Which one would you read? Click for the titles afterwards It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hill when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. I remember him as if it was yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pig-tail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat. Jungle Book Treasure Island

#22 Reading Detectives: what do you think is happening here? Even Thwaites was unable to offer a reasonable explanation. We became silent. There was a faint scent of danger in the air now. Each of us had caught a whiff of it. Alarm bells we beginning to ring faintly in our ears.

#23 What do you think the words could or should be? Click for the answer We tabled away and tractored towards the dribbling. All of a tornado we marmalade to feel slightly Manchester. We turned away and walked towards the school. All of a sudden we had begun to feel slightly uncomfortable. Boy - Roald Dahl

#24 Can you make this sentence better? There was a small girl in the toilet. Freddie looked at her and lifted his finger.

#25 Predict the next line to this using full sentences. Click to reveal the answer... The moles shook their heads sadly. A squirrel blew it’s nose on a butterfly. The cats looked close to tears. For Jake was the only dog he had ever loved. You’re A Bad Man Mr Gum – Andy Stanton

#26 rearrange these words into a sequence that makes sense. Use the punctuation as well. , . . if was Dixie not was Emma did excited understand so Dixie but

#27 Toolkit it? Why does this description work so well? I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round shape, hard and much worse for wear. The lining had been of silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker’s name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials “H.B.” were scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. From the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

#29 Make sense of the ‘unmake-a-sensible’ Here are four nouns and four verbs. Choose one of each and then a make a sentence that is equally creative and silly. An example has been done for you. car rubber fork flower The car hoped for a bag of joy.The rubber pinched back a piece of the snow. The flower dashed up the stairs and into the bathroom. guzzled pinched dashed hoped

#30 Connect It! Look at the two sentences. Can you connect them together with powerful connectives? Do you need to change the words to make the sentences more powerful? The dog found the keyThe key was full of rust.

#31 Alliterate an awesome array of amazing animals! Read my example... • The terrified tortoise tiptoed through the tiny toad's tent with tatty towels. • aardvark snake koala • buffalo dragon flamingo

#32 Can you make this sentence better? The flower was in the vase.

#33 Reader Feeders Needer Help! • He climmed up the chree. • She was falled on the flaw. • I just runnedover the feilds. • I walking home but Lucy runned.

#34 Why oh why did Teddy do it? Extend the sentence. Here’s an example. Teddy closed the curtains. Teddy closed the curtains so that the room was plunged into darkness. Now you have a go... Teddy opened the cupboard.

#35 Drop it in! Take a simple sentence and 'drop in' something extra, e.g. adjectives, adverb, a phrase or clause. Don’t drop in too much! Polly picked a flower.

#36 Creative Connections: How many words can you think of to do with... penguin

#37 Disasters: Look at these disastrous situations for Superman! • His tights are in the wash. • The colour in his boxer shorts washes out and now they're pink. • His Mum says to be in by 8.00 and in bed by 9.00. • His Dad tells him not to start fights. • His Gran gives him Kryptonite pants for Christmas. • What would be a disaster for • Batman?

#38 Can you make this sentence better? The rabbit held the carrot.

#40 Which one would you read? Click for the titles afterwards I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday. July 28 1988. Only now can I at last tell the whole extraordinary story, the true story. It was Mrs May who first told me about them. No, not me. How could it have been me – a wild, untidy, self-willed little girl who stared with angry eyes and was said to crunch her teeth. Kensuke’s Kingdom The Borrowers

#41 Reading Detectives: what do you think is happening here? So our poor wanderer went forth, and found all as the night-wind had said; and she plucked the eleventh rod, and smote the dragon, and immediately the lion became a prince and the dragon a princess again. Grimms’ Fairy Tales: The Lady and the Lion

#42 What do you think the words could or should be? Click for the answer He daisied the test tube from Cricklewood’sTomTom, limousined out the sniffle and lorried a sniff. He snatches the test tube from Boffin’s hand, whips out the cork and takes a sniff. Paul Jennings – Tongue Tied

#43 Can you make this sentence better? She walked into the cupboard. The clothes were hanging in front of her.

#44 Predict the next line to this using full sentences. Click to reveal the answer... “After all, your Englishman eats Beef and lamb and pork. It’s just that he wouldn’t think of eating horse. He’d sooner keep ‘em in a home like this.” Horse Pie – Dick King Smith

#45 rearrange these words into a sequence that makes sense. Use the punctuation as well. “ . , ‘ . “ poor You get You’re Emma rusty You thing said mustn’t wet getting

#46 Toolkit it? The verbs here are powerful. Find them and talk about them. It was clear enough now, the deep throb of aircraft engines, punctuated by spluttering. They leaned farther out of the window and craned upwards, scanning the night sky. It came from over the moor, and they saw it at the same time, a red flicker first, and then three more lights floating down through the sky above the moor. But the throbbing and coughing had stopped now, and there was silence. Friend Or Foe – Michael Morpurgo

#48 Make sense of the ‘unmake-a-sensible’ Here are four nouns and four verbs. Choose one of each and then a make a sentence that is equally creative and silly. An example has been done for you. train hammer frying pan hedge The train dreamed of the curved roads of Italy.The hammer swallowed the rusty head of the nail. The hedge jabbed its way between the dark shadowy houses. swallowed jabbed highlighted dreamed

#49 Connect It! Look at the two sentences. Can you connect them together with powerful connectives? Do you need to change the words to make the sentences more powerful? The boy jumped over the wall.The wall was covered in barbed wire.

#50 Alliterate an awesome array of amazing animals! Read my example... • The terrified tortoise tiptoed through the tiny toad's tent with tatty towels. • alligator serpent lion • toucan dog eagle

#1 Which one would you read? Reluctantly, Skater picked up the unwanted package...