With the Book Review Sheet, your pupils can answer questions about a Katie Morag book that they have just read. There are prompts such as:

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The book is set on a fictional island called the Isle of Struay so children can actually use their map skills and locate the island on a map. This makes it more real for them to work and develop their learning. The book has a map at the beginning of the book which shows where the different places in the Isle of Struay is. It also uses a lot of illustrations which is really good as children can see and understand all about the island. While you’re teaching this topic, you can use these colourful display posters to decorate your classroom. They feature key characters and settings such as Liam, Grannie, the Redburn Bridge, and the Post Office. Louise Scollay, Tales of eccentricity from author evoke laughter at book festival, Shetland Times, 11 September 2009. (Fourth story down). In England a short National Curriculum Key Stage 1 Geography unit for six- and seven-year-olds, called "An island home", has been linked to the series and in particular the book Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers. [10] The book Katie Morag and the New Pier has also been used as a peg to discuss how communities can gain and lose from change. [11] The most recent book in the series, Katie Morag and the Dancing Class, was a nominee for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2008, [12] which is awarded for an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature.

You can use this PowerPoint to highlight similarities and differences between the two islands, one real and the other fictional. Ask children to consider what it might be like to live in a place where the primary school has only two part-time teachers, and there are at most eight students in a class. Filming is brilliant! I really like my own bedroom in the studio. It's not real though. I get to run up the stairs and flash my torch to Grannie Island. Her house is a different set in the studio. In the 1990s she illustrated Christopher Rush's Venus Peter Saves the Whale (Canongate, 1992), [22] a reworking of the story from his acclaimed 1985 novel A Twelvemonth and a Day and the 1989 film Venus Peter. The book won the Friends of the Earth 1993 Earthworm Award for the book published that year that would most help children to enjoy and care for the Earth. Alexandria Patience, Artistic Evaluation: Katie Morag at Ardross Hall, Scottish Arts Council, 5 October 2005

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Casting for the series included a casting call in Stornoway in March 2013, [21] for filming on Lewis in May 2013, [22] some of which took place in the remote village of Tolsta Chaolais. For more resources about Coll, pair this resource with our differentiated reading activity to build key literacy skills like skimming and scanning. Another fun idea would be to encourage the use of online resources or library books to fill out this research worksheet, which can be done independently or in groups. The CILIP Kate Greenway Medal: Nominations for 2008". Archived from the original on 16 May 2012 . Retrieved 18 January 2011. This resource has been made in line with Curriculum for Excellence at Early Level Experiences and Outcomes, so you can be confident that it supports learning for relevant Literacy and English benchmarks. The Last Laird of Coll (Birlinn 2011), recollections of life on Coll and Kenneth Stewart, principal landowner on the island from 1942 until 1991. [17]A number of books in the series have been translated into Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Japanese, and Scottish Gaelic. [13] Books in the series [ edit ]