Session 12

Focus objectives

• To learn to retrieve the main locations and events from a text
• To learn the ways that a story map can help track a character's journey through a narrative

Key teaching approaches

• Story mapping

In shared writing, talk with the class about all the places that Jim has been to during the story. Make a list of these locations and then demonstrate how a character's journey through a book can be depicted with a map of the story. Ask the children to make their own story maps to show Jim's journey from his room in the overcrowded house he shared with his mother and sisters, to the circus.

Before the next session, read on to Chapter 26 'Goodbye Bruvver'.