KS: Lower KS2
Year Group: Year 4
Author(s): Neil Gaiman
This is a Home Learning Branch for Odd and the Frost Giants. These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots. They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.
A Writing Root is available for Odd and the Frost Giants.
Narrative recount, character and setting descriptions, letters, short explanations
Retelling - alternative perspective
15 sessions, 3 weeks
The three-week Writing Root is based on the story ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’ by Neil Gaiman. It includes exemplified grammar activities throughout, as well as including drama techniques such as thought-tapping. Visual images are also incorporated. Specific teaching strategies are highlighted in bold and there is a glossary to explain how each of these work in a classroom situation.
Odd, a young Viking boy, is left fatherless following a raid and in his icy, ancient world there is no mercy for an unlucky soul with a crushed foot and no one to protect him. Fleeing to the woods, Odd stumbles upon and releases a trapped bear and then Odd's destiny begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox Odd encounters are Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods. Now our hero must reclaim Thor's hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods.
This book, written and illustrated by award-winning duo Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell, draws on Norse mythology and the Vikings for inspiration. With a thrilling wintry setting and cast of magical characters, the adventure story will generate high levels of engagement. The plot, featuring Norse gods Thor, Odin and Loki, is rich and multi-layered so will help develop stamina for reading. Beautiful illustrations complement the story and will generate many questions for classroom discussion.
Vikings, Norse mythology, Thor, destiny, courage
Date written: April 2016
A Spelling Seed is available for Odd and the Frost Giants.
Overview:
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.
Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.
There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.
believe, breath, famous, naughty, reign, strength,special, surprises, favourite, considered
The /ʌ/ sound spelt ou
More Prefixes: Super-, Im-, In-, Il-, Ir-
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