Grimwood

Grimwood by Nadia Shireen

Grimwood by Nadia Shireen is a whimsical and heartwarming tale centered around two urban foxes, Ted and Nancy, who flee to the countryside of Grimwood to escape a formidable enemy, Princess Buttons.

Print our fully-resourced scheme of work to support your planning this term when reading the book ‘Grimwood’. Our worksheets are designed to engage children with exciting activities and challenges. This unit focuses on essential elements of vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation, providing a comprehensive literacy learning experience for young LKS2 readers.

Our differentiated scheme includes a range of activities based on story sequencing, exploring word class, inverted commas / speech marks, apostrophes, identifying sentence openers, using punctuation effectively, comprehensions and more. Lower Key Stage 2 students will deepen their understanding of ‘Grimwood’ through targeted literacy tasks (listed below) that explore the rich characters and playful language within the text.

This resource pack covers the entirety of the book, offering printable teaching materials to support your planning, and differentiated tasks tailored to a variety of abilities in your Year 3 / Year 4 class. With all the resources needed to accompany this book, you’ll be able to support students in expanding their vocabulary, honing grammar skills, and immersing themselves in the fun and adventure of ‘Grimwood’, while covering key areas of the Literacy section of the Primary National Curriculum.

Main Focus: Inverted Commas - Chapter 1

This activity focuses on identifying inverted commas / speech marks within chapter 1 of the book.

We have created a few variations of this resource so your Year 2 / Year 3 class can identify or insert speech marks where applicable within each sentence / passage.

Main Focus: Adjectives Chapters 2 & 3

This literacy resource uses text from chapters 2 and 3 of Grimwood and focuses on adjectives.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. Your KS1 / LKS2 class will choose adjectives from the word bank in the resource to complete the sentences from Chapters 2 and 3.

Main Focus: Chapter 5 - Apostrophes

This worksheet focuses on apostrophes and chapter 5 of Grimwood and is aimed at LKS2.

Your class must insert the apostrophes where required, write the word/words and record the reason why the apostrophe has been used.

This activity sheet helps children understand the different uses of apostrophes: possession or contraction.

Main Focus: Suffixes - Chapter 5

This printable worksheet focuses on suffixes and is aimed at Year 2/3 children.

A suffix is a group of letters which are added to the end of a word to make a new word. The words in the table all end in the suffix -ing or -ed but some of them have been spelt incorrectly.

Your KS1 / LKS2 class will tick those that are correct and then correct the mistakes.

Main Focus: Adverbs - Chapter 6

This activity focuses on adverbs and is aimed at KS1 and LKS2 level. An adverb is a word that describes a verb.

In the following sentences taken from Chapter 6, your class will underline the adverb(s) and then write their own sentences underneath, using the same adverb/one of the adverbs from the sentence.

Main Focus: Openers - Chapter 7

In Chapter 7 the author uses a range of openers for effect. Your class will complete the table in the sheet by identifying the type of opener used in each sentence.

This resource encourages your class to not only identify different types of sentence openers, but also transfer that knowledge to their independent writing.

Main Focus: Finding Evidence Chapters 9-12

Read Chapters 9-12 and find supporting evidence for the statements. Your class will write the evidence on the lines provided.

Here are a few samples questions:

1.Willow thinks that the magic tower is very special. (page 113)
Evidence:

2.Ted is happy when he hears about the drama club. (page 118)
Evidence:

3.Ted loves his family. (page 124)
Evidence:

4.Nancy is protective of her brother. (page 126)
Evidence:

5.Tamara is stressed and nervous. (page 169)
Evidence:

Main Focus: Comprehension - Chapter 13

This is a comprehension and includes a range of questions linked to chapter 13 of Grimwood.

The comprehension is aimed at Year 2/3 and asks questions that encourage your class to retrieve, infer, describe, compare and contrast, find evidence and more.

Main Focus: Who said it? Chapter 12-16

This activity focuses on Chapters 12-16 of Grimwood.

Your class will look at the speech written across the chapters and try to think back to who it was that said it.

It would be a good lesson to see if the kids remember, and then check their answers using the book to see how many they got correct.

Main Focus: Alphabetical Order - Chapter 16

In this resource, your LKS2 class will arrange the chosen words in alphabetical order.