Session 10

Focus objectives

• To use evidence from the text to collect information about a character and infer their feelings

Key teaching approaches

• Rereading
• Text marking
• Drawing and annotation

Ask the children to talk with a partner about what they have found out about Shrimps. Give them a copy of the extract from Chapter 12 which starts 'One of them was a red haired pokey sort of boy' and ends 'I'll talk to him today I'll find out what he's called that's what'. Ask them to reread this section together and highlight the information they find about Shrimps. Then tell them to draw an outline sketch of Shrimps writing, noting what they have found out about him so far around the edge of their sketch. This could include what he looks like and how he tries to earn money. Then ask them to think about what they know about how Shrimps feels about his mother and his wish for a brother, and write comments on his feelings inside the outline sketch.  Ensure that the children are able to back up their opinion with inferential and deductive evidence from the text.

Read Chapter 13 'The Lily', Chapter 4 'The Waterman's Arms' and Chapter 15 'Josh' before the next session.