A Very Small Protest: Activities

Shared Reading · Year 4. An adult reads the questions and clues aloud. Children can talk, point, sign or choose an answer. For Jumbled Words, show the matching vocabulary word and build it together; an adult can model the word before children build it.

Vocabulary

Read these five words from the story. Talk about what they mean.

headquarters: The main place where a group meets or plans things.
barrier: Something placed to keep people away from an area.
protest: An action that shows you object to something.
unnecessarily: More than was needed.
replace: Put a new thing where an old one was.

Jumbled Words

Use the clue to make a word from the story. Drag the letters with a mouse or finger, or tap a letter and then a space.

Put the story in order

Drag the pictures into order from first to last with a mouse or finger. Or tap a picture, then tap where it should go. Use arrow keys to move a focused picture.

Tell the story

Retell the misunderstanding from the children’s and Jo’s points of view. Explain the difference between what was said and what was assumed, and what their drawing communicated.