The Day the Crayons Quit

by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

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  • Mapped to UK National Curriculum

Learning Outcomes

Write a letter complaining in role as another coloured crayon, and a second letter in roles as an inanimate classroom object, in the style of the book.

Curriculum Objectives

  • Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves,
  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas,
  • Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading,
  • Learn how to use sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command,
  • Learn how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular,)
  • Consider what they are going to write before beginning by writing down ideas, and/or key words, including new vocabulary
  • Write for different purposes.