The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark: as read by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge on CBeebies Bedtime Stories

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Reese Witherspoon was a recent addition to the list, which also features Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Orlando Bloom and Eddie Redmayne, along with singing talent including Dolly Parton, Sir Elton John, Dave Grohl and Ed Sheeran - and children's television royalty such as Dame Floella Benjamin.

English The Owl who was afraid of the dark - Beck Row Primary English The Owl who was afraid of the dark - Beck Row Primary

We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. The duchess, who is the royal patron of Place2Be, a children's mental health charity, will appear on the CBeebies show to mark Children's Mental Health Week. At the end, you’ll have a good idea of where children are with their reading comprehension and what they need to do to progress. If they feel like they haven’t got a good grasp of the story yet, encourage them to reread it until they feel confident in their knowledge.The plot is divided into seven chapters, each covering a night during which Plop learns something new about the dark: dark is exciting, dark is kind, dark is fun, dark is necessary, dark is fascinating, dark is wonderful and dark is beautiful. Story Books < Story Titles T-V The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Jill Tomlinson The Disgusting Sandwich - Gareth Edwards The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark Chapter 1 teacher questions and answers relevant to the chapter, differentiated challenge activities and challenge activity answers. For more materials to support teaching on The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark chapters 1 to 7, check out this fantastic resource pack.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark – Teacher Resources The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark – Teacher Resources

In the first chapter, Plop (a baby barn owl) tells his mum that he is afraid of the dark and wants to be a day bird.

It's such a special and relevant tale and perfectly represents this years' Children's Mental Health week theme. The author uses the phrase ‘a fountain of dancing stars sprang up from the ground’ to describe the fireworks. They can check their answers as they go using the book as a reference, which will help them learn how to look up information they don’t know off the top of their head.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Forefield Infant School

All of the books in the Literacy Out of the Box series have been chosen for their outdoor settings and because they lend themselves easily to Learning for Sustainability across the curriculum. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy , external and privacy policy , external before accepting. This is a great activity for independent learning, as it lets you work on other tasks while your child reads.These differentiated comprehension questions are the perfect reading exercise to accommodate a range of abilities in your class. Barn Owl sends him down from his nest-hole to ask about the dark, and he meets a little boy waiting for the fireworks to begin, an old lady, a scout out camping, a girl who tells him about Father Christmas, a man with a telescope, and a black cat who takes him exploring. Reading comprehension activities are essential in any literacy class, and there are many reasons why.