Sample resources for use with the Raintree-published book, Ernest Shackleton, comprising:

• Y1 and Y2 literacy activities

• A one-hour literacy lesson on learning about people from non-fiction texts with the following outcomes: – (Y1) Children should recount events in simple sentences with evidence of full stops, capital letters and connectives; – (Y2) Children should recount the correct sequence of events, and include detail, to engage the reader. Consistent use of tense and correct use of capital letters, full stops and connectives should be evident in both simple and compound sentences.

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