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🦉 Story Overview: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark 🌙
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson tells the story of Plop, a young barn owl who is frightened of the dark. The story follows Plop as he meets different people, each of whom helps him see the dark in a new way. Through these encounters, Plop learns that the dark can be fun, exciting, beautiful, and even helpful.
The story is structured as a series of episodes. In each chapter, Plop meets a new character who shares a different perspective on the dark. These repeated encounters help Plop gradually grow in confidence until he finally discovers that the dark isn’t something to fear after all, but something to enjoy.
This gentle, reassuring story uses humour, repetition, and warm characters to show how understanding and experience can help us overcome our worries.
The writing outcome is to write a report about owls.
Mastery Keys are the key skills and learning objectives children work towards in our Pathways to Write scheme. They outline the specific writing skills—such as grammar, vocabulary, structure and creativity—that pupils need to master in each unit. The Mastery Keys listed below show the exact skills your child will be developing and help you understand what they are working towards in their writing.
Mastery Keys
- Use co-ordination (but, or)
- Add -ly to turn adjectives into adverbs
- Write for different purposes
- Use commas to separate items in a list
Our Class Reader
Gangsta Granny is a funny and exciting story about a boy called Ben who thinks spending Friday nights with his granny is boring—until he discovers she has a big secret! Instead of being an ordinary grandmother who loves cabbage soup and Scrabble, Ben finds out she was once an international jewel thief.
The story follows Ben and his granny as they plan an amazing adventure together. Their friendship grows stronger as Ben learns that people are often much more interesting than they seem. The book is full of humour, surprises, and touching moments.
The structure of the story builds from everyday routines to a thrilling mission, keeping readers guessing about what will happen next. It also shares an important message about family, kindness, and appreciating the people we love.