Take your KS2 class back to prehistoric times with this comprehensive Stone Age Boy Planning Pack, based on the wonderful book by Satoshi Kitamura. A set of six ready-to-teach English lessons, this planning pack takes an in-depth look at the Stone Age Boy story and challenges your Year 3 children to respond in a variety of ways, improving both their reading and writing skills as they do so.

Using these six Stone Age Boy lesson plans, your class will first become familiar with the text, showing their understanding by sequencing the story and answering a range of comprehension questions. They will then focus on how to use direct speech and descriptive language, before using this knowledge to plan and write their own version of the book, 'Stone Age Boy'.

Each of the lessons in this Stone Age Boy Planning Pack comes with a detailed plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, as well as a range of differentiated worksheets and activity ideas.

You may also like our Stone Age to Iron Age Topic Bundle containing four ready-to-teach Stone Age-themed schemes of work to bring prehistory to life in your classroom! 

Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the full text for this scheme of work. Extracts are provided where appropriate.

Becoming Familiar with the Story

Introduce your Year 3 class to the wonderful 'Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura in this first lesson.

First, children are challenged to predict what the story might be about by analysing the front cover, some key words and phrases from the text, and the blurb. After reading the book together as a class, children then demonstrate their knowledge of the text by ordering story strips, or in the alternative activity provided, answering questions about the main characters and events within the story.

The resources for this first Stone Age Boy lesson include a detailed plan, an engaging set of slides for the teaching input, as well as differentiated worksheets and activity ideas.

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Comprehension

Assess your children's comprehension of the book in more depth with this second lesson in this Stone Age Boy Planning Pack.

After discussing the events of 'Stone Age Boy' and then re-reading the book again as a class, children answer some multiple choice questions together. During their independent activities, their knowledge and understanding of the book is further tested with differentiated comprehension questions. In the alternative activity, children are challenged to 'hunt and gather' questions to answer!

Including an easy-to-follow plan, an engaging slide show, and differentiated resources, this lesson pack has everything you need for a successful, enjoyable English lesson with your Year 3 class!

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Using Direct Speech

In this lesson, now that they are familiar with the text, children will focus on the two main characters, and imagine what Om and the boy might say to each other if they spoke the same language!

As a class, children will first explore where inverted commas, capital letters, commas and closing punctuation need to go in different sentences involving speech. In their independent activities, they are challenged to add speech punctuation to given sentences, or in the alternative activity, they work in pairs to write a short conversation between Om and the boy, using direct speech.

A detailed plan, an informative slide show and differentiated worksheets are all included in this Stone Age Boy lesson pack.

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Descriptive Language

Your Year 3 class will learn about the importance of using descriptive language in their writing using this Stone Age Boy lesson plan.

Together, children discuss and identify some of the word classes used in descriptive writing (focusing on adjectives, verbs, adverbs and prepositions), before applying this knowledge in their independent activities, when they are challenged to write descriptions of settings similar to those in 'Stone Age Boy'.

Included in this ready-to-teach lesson pack are: a comprehensive plan, a set of informative slides for the teaching input, and differentiated, printable resources.

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Planning a Similar Story

Using their understanding both of the events in the book, as well as their own knowledge of life in the Stone Age, children will plan their own version of the story in this lesson.

Children will first discuss the basic structure of 'Stone Age Boy', before exploring different ideas for their version of the story. In their independent activities, they make notes for their writing using the planning sheets provided, or as challenged in the alternative activity, create a story map.

Everything you need for a successful lesson is included in this Stone Age Boy Lesson Pack - an easy-to-follow plan, an engaging set of slides and differentiated worksheets.

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Writing a Similar Story

In this final lesson, children will write their own version of 'Stone Age Boy'.

Children first look at what makes a piece of writing interesting and engaging for the reader, including descriptive language, varied sentence starters, characters' thoughts and feelings, and direct speech, before keeping this information in mind when writing their own version of 'Stone Age Boy'.

This ready-to-teach lesson pack includes a detailed plan, a slide show for the teaching input, and differentiated resources.

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