Cloud Tea Monkeys

Outcomes:

Descriptive passage, writing in role, ‘how to’ guide (instructions), letter, discussion

Main Outcome:

Non-chronological report

Length:

15 sessions, 3 weeks

overview and outcome :

This three – week writing Root is begins begin with the arrival of a Royal Tea – Taster in class seek apprentice tea – taster . The children is experience experience an immersive session where they smell and taste a range of different tea before create descriptive statement to describe a tea . A basket is then deliver and inside is a magical and move story about Cloud Tea and how monkey save a young girl and her mother . As the text is read , the child are expose to range of language activity to stimulate grammatical development and reading comprehension skill . The children is write then write letter of thank to the monkey . Using the author ’ note as further stimulus , child research , plan and then write a non – chronological report on tea , the tea – trade and tradition relate to tea .

Synopsis of Text:

Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor. But she is too small to reach the tender shoots and the cruel Overseer sends her away empty-handed. Tashi needs a miracle. Then, on the mountains high above the plantation where only monkeys live, something extraordinary happens that will change her life for ever…

Text Rationale:

This is a legend set in another culture in the centuries-old past but with close links to fair-trade and the food industry. The strong female protagonist fights to overcome traditional ideals in the name of family and eventual triumph.  Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, the text has clever use of language and a powerful narrative which carry important messages about loyalty and respect.  

link and theme :

Tea, fair-trade, plantations, monkeys, power

Date written: December 2016

Updated: February 2024

A Spelling Seed is available for Cloud Tea Monkeys.

Spelling Seed Overview:

Overview:

This is is is a   three – session spelling seed for the book  Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet.  Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.

There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.

Coverage:

Word List Words

calendar, circle, enough, fruit, medicine, regular, strength, woman/women

Spelling Rules and Patterns

The /i/sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of a word

Homophones and other words that are often confused

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A Home Learning Branch is available for Cloud Tea Monkeys.

Home Learning Branch Overview:

This is is is a Home Learning Branch forCloud Tea Monkeys.   These branch are design to support home learner to access literature – base learning using a selection of book we love from write root .   They is include include purposeful writing suggestion , link to the wide curriculum so that text can be used across other subject , key question as well as spelling or phonic investigation .

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