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Cloud Tea Monkeys - The Complete Series (7 lessons)

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SKU E4CS900680
Book-based PlanningNarrativeWriting to EntertainMathsKey Stage 2App. 2 – vocabulary, grammar and punctuationReading – comprehensionSpoken LanguageWriting – compositionWriting – vocabulary, grammar and punctuationEnglishYear 4

This Year 4 English Planning Pack designed to help improve children's use of quality descriptive language, fronted adverbials and conjunctions is inspired by the beautiful book Cloud Tea Monkeys. It will transport your class to the tea plantations of India where they will meet Tashi and her mother, Aunt Sonam and the others, the nasty Overseer and of course, his Excellency the Royal Tea Taster himself! Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the full text for this scheme of work.

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The seven-lesson unit begins with your class gathered around a wicker basket containing the book 'Cloud Tea Monkeys' wrapped up in parcel paper and surrounded by objects associated with the story. Children make predictions and use short snippets of the text to start to give them clues about how this magical story begins. They identify facts and start to make inferences. Children then analyse the description of the setting at the start of the story, picking out expanded noun phrases and classifying them according to their senses. In the next lesson, children learn how to use fronted adverbials to describe the position of items in the village setting and write a detailed description in role as Tashi. In the third lesson, Tashi arrives at the tea plantation and the description of the Overseer from the book is used to introduce children to similes. They identify them in the text and then develop their own to retell this part of the story in role as Tashi. In the following lesson, children learn more about fronted adverbials (manner) and they apply their learning to improve base sentences from the story. Then, the Royal Tea Taster arrives at the plantation and children are recruited to be his apprentices! They taste a variety of teas and make descriptive notes on their aroma, appearance and flavour, using conjunctions to extend their sentences. In the final lesson, children find out what happens at the end of the story and write their own ending in role as Tashi.

So, take your class on a journey through this beautiful book set in a tea growing region of India and download this scheme packed with everything you need to develop your children's descriptive writing. Included in the pack are engaging slideshows for each lesson, detailed lesson plans with differentiated activities and all the printable resources needed. Want more India-themed lessons? Then download this Investigating India Geography scheme which will have your class mesmerised by the true essence of this fascinating country.

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English planning - time saver!

Cloud Tea Monkeys planning is detailed yet to the point. Exactly what I was looking for. Even more amazing & time saving is having all of the resources so it can be a ‘pick-up & teach’ plan. I chose to supplement it with more writing opportunities but it’s well worth the money.

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