Overview and Outcomes:

This three-week Writing Root would best be begun with a discussion about friendship. The children write a complete story about a two seemingly
different characters, which they write in the third person and using the past tense. They use adverbs to sequence and add cohesion, as well as conjunctions to write compound sentences (but and and).

Synopsis of Text:

Yeti lives alone in a wintery landscape. Well, maybe not quite alone, but no one is brave enough to go near big, scary Yeti. No one apart from Bird, who gets lost on her way south, makes a special friend, and opens up a whole new world for our Yeti.

Text Rationale:

This is a beautiful tale of forming unlikely friendships with others from different worlds. The text has strong PSHE links, exploring friendship and how we form new relationships with others. The book also has solid links to geography as different landscapes are explored. Nadia Shireen is a significant, award-winning author and illustrator and children will enjoy exploring her other titles on their own.

Links and themes:

Friendship, unusual friendships, habitats, geography, overcoming differences

Date written: August 2014