Stone Age Boy

Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura One day a little boy is walking along when he trips, stumbles and falls … into the Stone Age! He meets a girl his own age and her tribe, and learns all about their way of life. He watches them make tools, clothes and weapons. He sees how they hunt, fish, cook, celebrate – and even how they paint on the walls of caves. But when a furious cave bear attacks, he wakes up back in his own time where everyone tells him it was only a dream. But was it?

This is a reading resource to begin your topic on the Stone Age.

Your class will learn about the three periods of the Stone Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, and how each are distinguished.

We have also created a comprehension and multiple choice sheet for your class to complete after reading the non-fiction text.

It is important to give your class some basic understanding of Neanderthals and early cave paintings to begin this Stone Age topic. Also note that Neanderthals are often associated with the middle Paleolithic period.

Your class will explore Neanderthals, cave paintings and also find out information about our early ancestors.

This task can be completed when looking at newspaper reports with your Year 3 or Year 4 class, or as a guided reading comprehension activity.

The wide range of questions will help your children attack different types and levels of questions as well as learning new vocabulary.

This resource pack is fully differentiated for Y3/Y4.

We know that it is important for children to work on skills within context. This is a rewritten passage from Stone Age Boy to include as many ‘ly’ words as possible.

In this resource, your class will be challenged to identify the incorrect spellings and spell many ‘ly’ words and some statutory words accurately. Your class will then use the words in sentences of their own.

Your class will focus on the vocabulary used in this newspaper report linked to Stone Age rock paintings.

Your class will read the focused vocabulary in context and explore their definitions.

This is an educational resource to accompany Stone Age Boy as well as being a useful tool when introducing your Year 3 or Year 4 class to historical aspects such as: evidence, factual information and newspaper reports.

This resource is useful when completing independent writing as it gives your class usable terminology for writing.

All children can choose words to suit their ability and understanding, as well as having the opportunity and ownership to push themselves to improve the quality of their written work.

This activity allows children to work on their sentence construction by using fronted adverbials from Stone Age Boy.

There are a range of activities to suit all abilities in your guided reading groups. You can choose whether the children:
– Identify fronted adverbials
– Identify and punctuate
– Add in adverbials

This worksheet focuses on contractions linked to the topic of the Stone Age.

This resource allows Year 3 / Year 4 children to work on locating contractions and being able to identify the original two words.

Can your children replace the two words with contractions throughout the text?
This resource focuses on: I’d                    I had Couldn’t           could not
Should’ve         should have You’re              you are I’d                  I would Didn’t              did not She’d               she had
Don’t                do not
Won’t              will not

Are you class struggling to grasp and use the words it’s and its correctly? This is another grammar resource for Lower KS2 that helps your children develop their understanding.

This resource can be used as a guide to help your class plan their narrative writing linked to the Stone Age Boy.

Your LKS2 class will plan a narrative of when a Stone Age boy gets transported to the modern day.

They will explore the foundations of creating a story and by following the guides will follow the structure of a story.

This activity encourages your class to reflect on the book and highlights different discussion points.

This is a learning resource that encourages your class to explore different aspects of the Stone Age.

From clothing and beliefs to cave paintings, dwellings, food and more. This is also great as a whole class activity as you can click on the area of interest and explore with your class. There are fantastic images to support the writing.

Here are a few fantastic resources by the BBC to accompany your Stone Age topic work with lower KS2. You children will learn more about an imaginary stone age boy called Grey Otter. Your  class will learn more about where he lives, eating habits, what he gets up to in his spare time and more. The other resource explores how our ancient ancestors used flint for tools.