Thomas’s Garden Swap: Activities

Shared Reading · Year 2. 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; children do not need to read independently.

Vocabulary

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

swap: Give one thing and receive another by agreement.
spoil: Become no longer suitable to use or eat.
exchange: Giving and receiving things between people.
value: How useful or important something is to someone.
invitation: An offer that someone can choose to accept.

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

Tell the beginning, the problem, what the characters tried and the ending. Explain one choice using a detail from the story. What else could they have tried?