Dangerous Trainers : Stage 11: TreeTops: More Stories A

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 11: TreeTops: More Stories A: Dangerous Trainers


by Nick Warburton (Author)
by Susan Gates (Author)
by John Coldwell (Author)
by Alan MacDonald (Author)
Martin Remphrey (Illustrator)



This book is part of TreeTops Fiction, a structured reading programme providing juniors with stories they will love to read. Offering chapter books with full-colour illustrations, written by well-known authors, these stories are full of humour and have real boy appeal. They are tightly levelled allowing children to read books appropriate to their ability.



Series:
TreeTops

Reading Stage:
TreeTops Stage 11

Book Band:
KS2 Y3 (P4) Brown

Dangerous Trainers by Susan Gates

Next steps: when reading stories, think carefully about the different characters, what they might feel and why. Notice the ways in which authors develop character.






Ideas

1. Make a list of descriptions that portray the menace of the trainers, e.g. "big slurpy purple tongues". Underline the words that remind pupils of animals, e.g. "carnivorous". Discuss the imagination and feelings of the narrator in the story.


2. Find phrases in the text that make the trainers seem like ordinary trainers, e.g. "It's your fault, not your trainers." Compare Mum's common-sense response with the narrator's imagination and his brother's doubts.


3. Encourage children to recall strange events in dreams. Ask them to write or tell as much as they remember. Talk about the way a character can change in a dream, e.g. become brave.


4. Imagine who found the trainers on the bus. Write the story of what happened to 'The Trainers on the Bus.' Read the stories aloud and discuss which ones portray the dangerousness of the trainers.



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Dangerous Trainers



1. Describe the dangerous trainers.

2. Why were the trainers dangerous?

3. What did the younger brother think the trainers
were doing at night?

4. What happened to the moth?

5. What did the mouse look like when it was tied up
in the laces?

6. Do you think the trainers were really moving
about by themselves?

7. Onomatopoeias are words that make the same
sound as when you say them eg. thud. Can you
find more onomatopoeias in the story?


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