Ash Grove Academy

Reading Homework

Your child will bring home a library book from our school library to enjoy with you at home.

Our library day will be Tuesday. 

You can enjoy a selection of free audiobooks on the World Book Day or Spark Book Awards website. Audiobooks are a brilliant way of enjoying books being SPAG read aloud, whether you’re sharing them with family or friends, or listening on your own.

https://www.worldbookday.com/world-of-stories/ 

https://www.puffinschools.co.uk/resource-tags/extract/

Here are some questions that you can ask your children about their reading:

  • Who is the author?
  • Who is your favourite character and why?
  • What do you think will happen in the end?
  • What makes you think this book is going to be interesting?
  • What do you think the book is going to be about?
  • Does this book remind you of anything else you’ve already read or seen?
  • What colour from the Zones of Regulation is that character in? Why?
  • Read a sentence- what is the subject? verb? leftover? 

Extract from The Iron Man 

Ted Hughes

The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness. The wind sang through his iron fingers. His great iron head, shaped like a dustbin but as big as a bedroom, slowly turned to the right, slowly turned to the left. His iron ears turned, this way, that way. He was hearing the sea. His eyes, like headlamps, glowed white, then red, then infrared, searching the sea. Never before had the Iron Man seen the sea. He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted - up, out into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness. CRRRAAAASSSSSSH! Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling, head over heels. CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! From rock to rock, snag to snag, tumbling slowly. And as he crashed and crashed and crashed. His iron legs fell off. His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms. His great iron ears fell off and his eyes fell out.