Cloud Tea Monkeys

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Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - This is a remarkable story of inspiration and dedication. It shows how you can achieve something if you truly believe you can do it. In some way or another, you will achieve it. Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners". The Guardian 12 March 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

Intricately told – with painstakingly detailed, radiant illustrations – this little treasure of a book is, naturally, best read at teatime.” I would recommend this book as one for whole class or group reading and then it could be used to introduce a number of activities in different subject areas, as suggested below: Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments An activity with different groups doing a hot seat with different characters from Tashi, to the overseer to the lead monkey to find out their feelings and motives. Peet himself stated, "I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author’s intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships." [9]develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by: discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination One aspect that really shone out to me was the link between humans and nature, via the use of the monkeys. As Tashi respected the monkeys and was generous she reaped the rewards as they then looked after her, so this can bring about an element of Geography with looking after nature and also allow children to discover where and how foods they buy in the supermarket get there. This is a very beautiful book. The story, based on Himalayan tales collected by the authors, is illustrated with visionary-romantic paintings, in which sublime landscapes, imperial splendour and human misery are depicted in radiant detail.” I think that the book could be used in a variety of ways within the classroom environment. It could be contained within the classroom book corner for the children to access on an independent basis but it may also be explored as a key literacy text. A cross curricular approach could be used in which children could write a daily diary entry perhaps from the perspective of Tashi with a focus on her feelings and emotions during the story. This would therefore not only be a literacy focus but would also relate to PSHE. The teacher would then be able to explore feelings and emotions with their class perhaps through a discussion initially with their peers and then through a whole class approach. For some of the learners to be extended during this activity they may be encouraged to tell the story from an additional characters perspective.

This book would be best suitable for upper key stage two, however, it could also be read to a year four class and high ability year three as it has beautiful illustrations which help tell the story. There are lots of opportunities for cross curricular work such as in Geography by looking at developing countries, child labour and fair trade. learning about adjectives, verbs, tense, conjunctions and punctuation within the context of the bookThree of Peet's books feature the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino (and football). Peet's debut novel Keeper, which is primarily a world-champion goalkeeper's life story in the course of an interview. Keeper, The Penalty, and Exposure all feature Faustino and South American football players. When he won the 2009 Guardian Award for the Othello-based Exposure, he told the sponsoring newspaper he had felt that 'football books for children were "pretty much hey"'. Also, "I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark. Now I get to play football vicariously." [7] Susan Tranter wrote that "Mal Peet's work is notable for its refusal to submit to categories – the constraints which label what a book should be about, and who it should appeal to. His books to date prove that successful literature for young readers doesn't have to be didactic, or have overtly youthful themes, or even centre on young characters. It is the quality of the writing which is, ultimately, the most important thing." Peet says he is skeptical of books written specifically for teenagers, saying they are prone to condescension. [6] Using tea as the focus, a cross curricular investigation into the production and distribution of tea could be carried out including fair trade issues. The use of colour and description in this book is amazing- it really makes you feel like you are there and experiencing what Tashi is feeling. Children can really engage with the story due to the wonderfully written in depth descriptions of the scenery and people as well as the beautiful illustrations. There are many cross curricular links that can be explored within the story and can stem to create a scheme of work relating to the book- such as geography, history, art, literacy and many many more. Cloud Tea Monkeys (Ragged Bears, 1999), written by Elspeth Graham and Mal Peet, illustrated by Alan Marks — "based on a Chinese folktale" [8] ISBN 9781406333862 (pbk)

Cloud Tea Monkeys (90-slide editable PowerPoint with 20 worksheets) is an engaging English teaching resource for KS2/3 based on the book by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. The resource covers a range of Reading and Writing skills and is detailed and progressive. KS1 would benefit from having the story read to them and the beautiful illustrations on a visualiser or interactive whiteboard. the story and illustrations would engross capture the children's attention and imagination, whilst also providing some insight into another culture and way of life. a b c "Mal Peet wins Guardian children's fiction prize: A version of Othello which casts the Moor of Venice as a South American football star wins Mal Peet the 2009 Guardian children's fiction prize". Alison Flood. The Guardian, 8 October 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2012.Despite this book having an element of challenging language this book would be a great read to children out loud. Reynolds and Brown have crafted a Halloween tale that balances a really spooky premise with the hilarity that accompanies any mention of underwear. Lccn 2009011868 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL23202365M Openlibrary_edition

Our Cloud Tea Monkeys KS2 teaching resource (made up of an editable 90-slide PowerPoint presentation with 20 accompanying worksheets) is based on the book by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham. This 'Cloud Tea Monkeys' unit ofwork covers a variety of essential KS2 Reading and Writing skills and is both progressive and engaging. Vividly descriptive language transports us to an unfamiliar life and environment, imbued with a heady magic and yet tempered with the harsh realities of wresting a living from the land.”Life: An Exploded Diagram (2011), a semi-autobiographical novel, was his last book for young readers. [9] [15] understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by: predicting what might happen from details stated and implied This book could also be used as part of a topic in Literacy on Myths and Legends or when teaching descriptive writing as the story contains some great similes and metaphors. Other possible activities could include: