In reading and writing, our focus text is Flooded by Spanish author and illustrator, Mariajo Ilustrajo.
We’ve really enjoyed this text, exploring the key themes by asking questions and making connections.
A theme is a big idea or message.
Flooded is a funny tale of animals in a slowly flooding city. Behind the humorous story and illustrations, there’s an important message. Flooded touches on themes of environmental crisis and responsibility, as well as the power of community, and working together to fix a problem.
We’ve used the text to practise our summarising skills – summarising is retelling a story in your own words.
The children impressed me with their skills, sequencing pictures from the story and writing a summarising sentence for each.
Help at home by inviting your child to summarise Flooded. Can they tell you about the key themes? Try sequencing and summarising events in a different text. What happened first? What next? What happened at the end?