Mrs Armitage on Wheels: Celebrate Quentin Blake’s 90th Birthday

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-08-25 10:00:33 Boxid IA1913411 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier He has illustrated nearly 300 books, and is known for his collaboration with writers such as Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken and Michael Rosen. He is the major illustrator for Roald Dahl books, including The BFG, The Witches, Matilda and Esio Trot, all of which have won major prizes.

Read The Train Ride. Identify what the characters see on the journey. List ideas as words or phrases. Show sequencing words ( resources) and model converting the ideas into an oral recount. This story is a great one to read with children because it is a text which explores many aspects of grammar such as speech, tense and different sentence structures. Therefore, it could be used as a hook or context for further learning to take place.Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18256 Openlibrary_edition Mrs Armitage on Wheels is a pleasure to read aloud with a class. The prose flows smoothly off the tongue, and the refrains get children joining in. They love the onomatopoeia (crash, crunch, thud!) and the listing of bike modifications which are used with comic effect. The language, which seems simple at first, builds increasingly into adventurous words and phrases which mirror the growing complexity of Mrs Armitage’s bike: don’t be surprised if your class start to speak of ‘complete tool kits’, ‘faithful dogs’ or of things needing ‘a bit of extra oomph’ after repeat readings! Without dialogue, it has the purity of a silent film, creating movement and telling its delightful story entirely through pictures. After being thrown out with other toys, a clown doll flips itself out of a trashcan, joins a fancy dress parade, is chased by a dog, and is then thrown accidentally into a poor high-rise apartment. There his antics help to quiet a crying child, and he helps the harassed babysitter to tidy the apartment. Then they all go out into the city, against a vivid red sky and grey city buildings, and retrieve the others. By the time the child’s mother comes home, the clown has become a loved toy again. Characteristically, the book also conveys an underlying moral theme, about rejection and connectedness. You could bury it in a hole in your garden – but it must be in a container that will not biodegrade - and you will have to mark the spot somehow! The story features Mrs Armitage and her little dog, Spearbrake. Mrs Armitage is a quirky older lady and decides to adapt and improve her bike to suit a variety of her needs. Her bike gradually becomes more and more unconventional (and ridiculous!) throughout the plot.

Blake’s dynamic pen strokes typically create odd, unruly characters, almost always seen in concert with children, rendering them in a sprightly manner. As Sue Hubbard, an art critic writing in The Independent, has observed: ‘His drawing is wonderfully free and playful, the colour bleeding with carefree abandon over the ink outlines to give a sense of movement and vitality’. He is now one of Britain’s most popular artists, and so recognizable have Blake’s illustrations become, that his gently anarchic images have spread to greetings cards. In 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate, and his achievement has recently been marked by a major retrospective exhibition: ‘Quentin Blake: Fifty Years of Illustration’, held at Somerset House in London in 2004. His work was also a major part of the British Council's 'Magic Pencil' Exhibition which began touring the world in 2002, and there are apparently future plans for a Quentin Blake Gallery. Share books, information, photos and ideas about people who help us; police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, sports coaches etc. Have fun role playing some of these. Learn to punctuate sentences and write a thank you letter. Create factsheets and a class non-fiction book. As well as all the above, Quentin Blake is a wonderful author who provides many hidden details within the illustrations. Talking to your baby or child when out and about Read Talking to your baby or child when out and about NowBritish Council complies with data protection law in the UK and laws in other countries that meet internationally accepted standards.

Words for Life is created by the National Literacy Trust and supported by UK publishers with funding for its creation from the DfE and Kindred 2.This picture book was requested again and again when my children were small. Mrs Armitage goes for a bike ride with her very cute dog, Breakspear. She finds ways to make additions to her bike, a dog seat, a mouth organ, some umbrellas, a sail.... until it goes wrong. A fun read with lots of details to look at in the illustrations.