More Adventures From
The Writing House DVD
Subtitles
English
Age 6–7 / Embedded Teachers’ Guide and Activity Book $650.00 NG44694X
Curriculum Connections
• Writing about personal experience • Writing simple descriptions • Writing non-fiction texts
As an extension of the first series of The Writing House, these
programmes progress the writing skills of pupils aged 6–7. From
shopping lists to alphabetical order, fantasy stories to writing letters,
children are guided through an engaging example of shared writing
by the characters in the house.
1. Writing Lists 8. Writing a Story
2. Writing a Postcard 9. Writing a Story Using a
3. Using the Alphabet Known Setting
4. Writing a Letter 10. Writing a Poem
5. Writing Instructions
10 x 15-minute programmes
6. Writing a Recount
7. Using Speech Marks
Book Box
Collection DVD
Subtitles
English

Age 7–11 / Free Book Box website www.channel4learning.com/bookbox $650.00 NG443649
Blabber Mouth and Sticky Beak Alice Through the Looking Glass
Curriculum Connections Curriculum Connections
• Issues relating to disability • Text, sentence and word literacy
• The power of humour and love • Listening, reading, talking, writing
• Genre, nonsense poetry and script writing
Set in Australia, Emmy Award-winning
DVD includes
Blabber Mouth and Sticky Beak centres
four series
Alice Through the Looking Glass is a faithful, modern dramatisation of Lewis
on Rowena Batts, mute since birth, and
and embedded
Carroll’s classic story with impressive special effects and a star-studded cast
her embarrassing, eccentric father. The including Kate Beckinsale and Steve Coogan.
programmes and resources offer an
Teachers’
excellent stimulus for literacy work. Guides
1 x 83-minute programme
2 x 30-minute programmes
Grandpa Chatterji
Curriculum Connections
Bill’s New Frock • Dramatised version of the children’s story by Jamila Gavin
Curriculum Connections • Ideal stimulus for discussing multicultural issues
• Opportunity to compare a dramatised version with the original
• Highlights issues of gender Grandpa Chatterji is the story of a family of Indian origin living in England
who are visited by their grandfathers, one from Leicester, the other from
With Bill’s New Frock, Anne Fine has created a fairy tale with a feminist twist. Calcutta. Seen through the eyes of their grandchildren,
Bill wakes up to find that he has become a girl, which leads to humorous and their visits highlight contrasts between East and West.
bizarre experiences that highlight the arbitrary nature of gender constraints.
2 x 15-minute programmes
2 x 15-minute programmes

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