This Morning I Met a Whale

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Ideas include writing a persuasive letter from the main character’s perspective in boarding school, a survival guide for lions and a plot outline for the novel. I enjoyed this book because it was worrying and was addressing all the problems in the world and it was based on a real event. During his long career, Sir Michael Morpurgo has served as Children’s Laureate and written more than 150 books.

Written by Michael Morpurgo, an English author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse.Each pack carefully analyses the vocabulary used by authors, chapter by chapter, then provides an explanation of these unfamiliar or meaning-rich words in context. I wonder if you could change the capital letters to lower case though as only the proper nouns need them.

Follow-up: What do the children think Michael could do to keep his promise to the whale, to help people stop damaging the environment? This resource features three printable worksheets for three Morpurgo books: Sparrow: The True Story of Joan of Arc, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea and A Medal for Leroy.The whale tells a story that was told to him by his granddad and was told to deliver it to children.