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This wonderful book follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey … who knows where?

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

• Use the title as the starting point for your own story. What might your own story about a ‘Journey’ include?
• Look at the illustrations on the front, back and inside covers. Discuss what you think it might be about.
• As you explore the illustrations in the book, try to find features that might be clues about the rest of the story.
• Think of your own captions, speech / thought bubbles to add to the illustrations.
• Make a word bank that includes words you could use to describe the people, places and events in the story.
• Create a narrative version of the story. Could you turn it into a playscript?
• Imagine that you had a pen that could be used to draw (and create) real objects. What would you draw? Could you write a new story based on this concept?
• Write a character profile about the girl. What do you know about her? How would you describe her?
• Retell the story from the girl’s point of view. Could you write a diary entry for her?
• Write a prequel to this story that explains where the magic red pen came from. Who owned it before the girl? Who made it? Why does it have special powers?
• Choose one of the settings in the story. How would you describe it?
• Write a newspaper article about a girl who goes missing through a magical doorway in her bedroom.
• Write a newspaper article about the girl who arrived in the city in a red boat.
• Stop reading when the girl first arrives at the city. Should she go in? Why (not)? Share your thoughts with others and vote on what you think should happen next.
• Why is the purple bird being hunted by the people?

• Create a game in which a girl has to rescue a special purple bird.
• Create a video that shows the illustrations in the book and is accompanied by your own narration / speech.
• Watch this trailer for the book. Could you use multimedia software to create your own book trailer?

Design Technology

• Create a model of one of the airships in the illustrations.
• Imagine that you could draw a magic door from your classroom / bedroom wall into another world. Draw the view to the other side.
• Create a picture that shows what the girl can see at your favourite point in the story.
• Could you create an additional page (or group of pages) that tells a different part of the story? Could you draw a sequel to this book?
• The illustrations were created using watercolour paints. Can you try to paint using a similar style?
• Look at the different characters in the story. Can you create your own illustrations of them? This video has some tips from the author / illustrator:

• Compose a theme tune to accompany a movie version of this story.
• Draw a map of the city the girl encounters.
• How many different forms of transport can you find in the book?
• Imagine that you had a flying carpet. Where would you travel to? Why?
• Plan your own ‘Journey’. Where will you go? How will you get there? What will you need to take?
• Find out about famous journeys, explorers and expeditions from history.

Religious education

• Why do people sometimes go on special journeys as part of their religion? Can you find out more about these?
• Look at the body language of the characters in the illustrations. What might they be thinking / feeling? How can you tell?

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A writing root for journey.

KS: Lower KS2, R & KS1, Upper KS2

Year Group: Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Literary Theme: Coming together & community

Author(s): Aaron Becker

"The most fantastic way to launch the year: our whole primary school is excited to write."

Anna Chidzey, whole school, British International School Riyadh

• Description

Main Outcome(s):

Predictions, retellings in role, maps, posters, a travel diary, instructions and a story sequel.

10+ sessions, 2+ weeks

Overview and Outcomes:

This is a two-week Whole School Writing Root for Journey by Aaron Becker. The resource has been designed to be used by an entire school to foster a shared learning experience around one text and to engender written outcomes – some with the same audiences and purposes, some not – that are ‘at pitch’ for each phase/stage but that will also aid revision, catch-up and extension where (and in whichever form) needed. We have planned for activities at 3 stages: Reception with Year 1; Year 2 with Year 3 and then Year 4 to Year 6. The resource is intended to form the basis upon which schools and teachers can create and shape a sequence of learning that will work within their context.  The sessions could be added to with art activities and through further learning in PSHE, Science, Geography and History.

Synopsis of Text:

The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey ... who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all...

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TEACHING RESOURCES

Journey by aaron becker 7 - 9.

A beautiful wordless picture filled with adventure and wonder.  Our protagonist feels alone in the grey city that surrounds her and traps her.  She wishes to travel and to see the world and for this to happen she will have to do it for herself.  With just a swipe of chalk and a lot of imagination she travels to far away lands filled with wonder and mystery; beauty and danger.

Writing Outcomes

• Setting description
• narrative sequel

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Home : Key Stage One : English : Year One Planning : Term Three : Unit B – Space Flight

Lesson Five – Journey Story

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to devise a storyboard to record alternative events that could happen in a story with a fantasy setting about a journey. The class can explain how to write and punctuate sentences correctly using capital letters and full stops.

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Learning Objectives

Saying out loud what they are going to write about. Sequencing sentences to form short narratives.

Learning Outcomes

I can say ideas for sentences aloud to check that they make sense before writing them down. I can sequence sentences I have written to tell a story.

Journey Story

Teaching sequence to help the children devise a storyboard to record alternative events that could happen in a story with a fantasy setting about a journey

Journey Storyboard

Template to help the children select and record alternative events that could happen in a story with a fantasy setting about a journey

Interactive activity to help the children devise a storyboard to record alternative events that could happen in a story with a fantasy setting about a journey

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Teachers, Librarians & Parents Teacher Resources

One of the joys of writing children’s books is the feedback I get from teachers, librarians, and parents who have found interesting and creative ways of using my stories with their children. Wordless picture books offer lots of room for interpretation, not just in their retelling, but in the worlds and ideas they inspire.

The simplest and most direct activity is to read the book as a group. Downloading the Journey Trilogy Activity Kit  is a good place to start. You can also  download my guide to reading a wordless picture book to help give you ideas for how to encourage your students to engage with the story.

Many teachers also choose to use the books as a starting point for writing prompts and exercises. Students can write their own manuscripts to the story, inventing names of characters and places and practicing how to structure a narrative. Simple art projects, involving a cut-out door and background landscape can provide another avenue for creative expression. If you had a magic door, where might it take you?

I also have two Q&A’s that might get your students wondering about being authors themselves one day(!): JOURNEY Q&A QUEST Q&A

There’s also a fun paper lantern project that I put together for the good folks at All the Wonders that your students might enjoy.

However you choose to expand upon the books in your classroom remember that the very fact that you’re even reading this is a good sign that your students will pick up on your enthusiasm for storytelling and creativity. Thank you all for helping me do my job by sharing it with your kids!

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Journey - Aaron Becker

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Unit of work

Last updated

29 July 2020

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Journey Stories, Christmas Themed - KS1 Text Types: Writing Planners and Model Texts

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This pack contains a number of resources to support pupils in Key Stage 1 when writing a simple journey story with a Christmas theme. Pupils can explore the model story ‘Getting Ready for Christmas’ and sequence the plot using the planning sheet.

The resources are based around a Christmas theme and could be used to engage pupils in seasonal writing tasks at the end of the autumn term. There is an opportunity to revisit or teach adding the suffix -ed to words to form past tense verbs and using adverbials to sequence simple linear stories.

What is included in this KS1 resource pack?

• Model text - Getting Ready for Christmas - a simple journey story about Sam and Freya helping their parents to decorate their house for the festive season
• Journey story writing sheet - this contains success criteria for writing a simple journey story that follows a similar structure to the model text; it also has examples of words ending in the suffix -ed and examples of vocabulary used at Christmas time
• Sequencing stories adverbials cards - a set of word cards with adverbials of time that pupils can use to help sequence the events in their story; these could be used during oral storytelling activities where pupils can rehearse narratives before writing
• Getting ready for Christmas images - a collection of images showing people getting ready for the festive season to inspire pupils to write their own stories about getting ready for Christmas
• Journey story planning sheet - this worksheet allows pupils to note ideas and sequence their journey stories
• Themed writing paper - the writing paper can be used for pupils to present their work

What is a journey story?

In a journey story, characters go on a simple journey to reach a given point, or go on a journey to complete a task.

National Curriculum English programme of study links:

Year 1 Pupils will write sentences by saying out loud what they are writing about and composing sentences orally before writing Pupils will be taught to write sentences by sequencing sentences to form short narratives. Pupils will be taught to add prefixes and suffixes using ... -ed ... where no change is needed in the spelling of root words

Year 2 Pupils should write for a range of purposes Pupils should consider what they are going to write about before beginning by planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about Pupils should be taught to apply spelling rules from English Appendix 1 (suffix -ed)

This resource is part of the Christmas Resources for KS1 and KS2 collection. View more from this collection

• Model text - Getting Ready for Christmas
• Journey story writing sheet
• Sequencing stories adverbials cards
• Getting ready for Christmas images
• Journey story planning sheet
• Themed writing paper

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