Book Title: Skills from BrazilThis list of activities is designed to offer ideas for use with Skills from Brazil by Dan Freedman and it is intended to cover a half term period. Most of these activities will require pupils to build up their work over two to three lessons and this is why we have entitled the individual components as a numbered Activity rather than a Lesson. Activity1Learning ObjectivesSuccess CriteriaLesson ActivitiesAssessment (How will progress be measured?)The Warm Up!To explore and predict possible outcomes for characters and themes within Skills from Brazil.Pupils can explore the initial clues and make predictions as to possible outcomes within Skills from Brazil. Pupils will collaborate in pairs to compile predictions prior to reading the text, which they can justify orally or through evidence to the previous books World Class and Final Whistle.Curriculum links:Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by: continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction making comparisons within and across books predicting what might happen from details stated and implied.Differentiation:Scaffolding of questions using Blooms;Provision of question stems for less able;Oral scaffolding in the prediction task;Character and focus of prediction in the task.The Warm Up! Pre reading activities: Obviously these will depend on whether pupils have read the previous books in the Jamie Johnson series.Show pupils the cover of the book. Ask pupils what the cover tells them about the content of the book. Why did Dan Freedman choose to present the book cover in this way? What does the blurb tell you? Explore the comments from famous footballers on the front cover and inside of the book and discuss their expectations of the novel in the light of these comments:“A great story about the true magic of football. Lucio (Brazilian football legend)“Youll read this and want to get out there and play” Steven Gerrard“An inspiring read for all football fans” Gary Lineker“If you like football, this books for you” Frank Lampard“Jamie could go all the way” Jermain Defoe“I love reading about football and it doesnt get much better than this” Joe HartWhat effect does the quotation from Lucio have on the reader?If pupils had written their own book, who would they like to endorse it and why?Show pupils the opening section of text that starts, A press conference is being held at Hawkstone UnitedUsing Think, pair, share strategy, pupils begin working in pairs and discuss who might be the manager in question? What are the clues here? What themes might be running through this novel? Utilise the Blooms Taxonomy stems of questions to challenge all learners.If the earlier books have been read pupils can then speculate as to what might happen in the book for the author to start in the present and then flashback to the past. What could be the chain of events about to unfold (Discuss flashback and flash forward as authorial techniques)Pupils then share their ideas in small groups giving justification for their thoughts through their knowledge of the earlier texts. If pupils have read the earlier Jamie Johnson books, they could make their own specific predictions as to what happens to Jamie, Jack, Jamies Dad and Jamies Mum or any other character(s) you select for them. E.g. One small group focuses on Jamie, one on Jack etc. These should be shared with the rest of the class and justifications or evidence from Final Whistle or the other novels, given for these predictions. Predictions should be recorded so that pupils can compare these predictions to the actual events in the book / comment on effectiveness of actual over their own predictions. Keep a note of all pupils predictions so that you can use this to instigate discussion during reading activities.Feedback from peers on responses to their own questions. Pupils predictions to be used as a reflection point as the reading of the novel progresses. Activity2Learning ObjectivesSuccess CriteriaLesson ActivitiesAssessment (How will progress be measured?)ResearchingDanFreed-manTo explore a writers motivation. *Only complete this task if this has not been completed for Dans previous books. Pupils can explore a writers motivation by researching the purpose and context of the writing.Pupils can collaborate in groups to research, select and present appropriate information to engage and entertain readers of a specific age.Curriculum links:Plan writing by:identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own;noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.Differentiate through:Resources to complete the task e.g. IC