The Firework Maker's Daughter

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I’ve learned all there is to know about fly-away powder and thunder-grains, and scorpion oil and spark repellent, and glimmer-juice and salts-of-shadow, but there’s something else I need to know, and he won’t tell me. A terrific resource to use with upper KS2 children to help them to improve their descriptive writing.

Extract taken from the Corgi Yearling Edition 2004 of The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman. If you were to tell a friend why they should read this book, what would you say after watching the video? In this resource, children explore the techniques the author Philip Pullman uses in his well-loved book The Firework-Maker's Daughter to describe an effective setting and create an impact on the reader. Can you think of a time in your life when you had to persevere and keep trying to achieve something?Honestly, before I started reading this story, I'd never thought about who actually makes a firework. On her quest, Lila does get some help from the worst and funniest pirates you'll ever get to read about. This book is fascinating adventure story, about Lila, a girl who has an ambition to be a firework maker herself.

It was the custom that whenever the King wanted to punish one of his courtiers, he would send him the White Elephant as a present, and the expense of looking after the animal would ruin the poor man; because the White Elephant had to sleep between silk sheets (enormous ones), and eat mango-flavoured Turkish Delight (tons of it), and have his tusks covered in gold leaf every morning. Wales - Progression Step 2/3 Languages, Literacy and Communication: Literature fires imagination and inspires creativity.It will also be available for download within 48 hours, and you can find it either as a new resource, or under 'Alternative versions' above. But luckily for Lila, she's got an expert teacher, her dad, and he shows her how to make some eye-popping fireworks, like Leaping Monkeys and Golden Sneezes. It lay down a little winding alley full of crackling smells and pungent noises, between the fried-prawn stall and the batik-painter’s. TV presenter Saira Khan encourages us to read her favourite children’s book, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman (illustrated by Peter Bailey).

Included are all the lesson presentations, resources and planning required as well as a fact file that children can stick in their book at the start of the unit. Every Firework-Maker – ’ and he lowered his voice and looked around to make sure no-one was listening – ‘every Firework-Maker has to travel to the Grotto of Razvani, the Fire-Fiend, in the heart of Mount Merapi, and bring back some of the Royal Sulphur. This story map can be used along side the story of The Firework Maker's Daughter to improve your children's map reading and literacy skills. These discussion questions and activity suggestions provide opportunities to develop english and art and design knowledge and skills in meaningful contexts across all UK curricula, as well as reflecting and understanding values. We'll be sure to upload them onto the site as soon as we can :) You can find all our current Firework Maker's Daughter resources here: https://www.Firework makers daughter resourcesI want to copy the plans for the play script, instruction and personal writing sections but cant because the plans are secured. Every afternoon Chulak would take the White Elephant out for his exercise, because the Elephant would go with no-one else, and there was a reason for this: Chulak was the only person, besides Lila, who knew that the Elephant could talk. Northern, Ireland - KS1/KS2 Language and Literacy: Extend the range of their reading and develop their own preferences.

It was difficult to breathe, because she seemed to be taking fire into her lungs as well as the air. Now, any firework maker visiting Razvani needs to bring three special gifts, and also needs the protection from the goddess of the Emerald Lake.

Inspirational Quotes: Discuss the values of perseverance and determination featured within the book and video, then have children design posters with uplifting quotes and their own artwork to motivate others. Please can you send the plans unsecured because I would like to implement them into my school planning format and cant do so. To discover the final firework-making secret, Lila must bravely head off alone on a journey – a journey filled with dangers beyond anything she could have imagined. But I'm not going to tell you how Lila's encounter with Razvani ends, or how she tries to save somebody's life with the most spectacular firework display.