The Diary of a Killer Cat (The Killer Cat, 1)

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A fantastic selection of activities based on the ever-popular book Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine, engage your children with a diary entry written from Ellie's point of view, a newspaper report and a vet report. The book gives a great account of this as it demonstrates how different the cat’s thoughts are on the situation from the typical ‘human opinion’ which I feel children would find amusing. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year; and Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize. Though readers often find themselves inadvertently laughing aloud as they read Anne Fine's novels, as she herself admits, "a lot of my work, even for fairly young readers, raises serious social issues.

When he brings home the body of the neighbours rabbit the family go to great lengths to cover up his crime. A cat’s eye view of a week in which his family fail to appreciate the results of his hunting - and blame him for killing next door’s rabbit when all he has done is to dig up the corpse. I am sharing this guided reading resource with you in the hopes that it will save you some bit of time and enhance your guided reading lesson. Amongst numerous other awards, she is twice winner of both the Carnegie Medal, Britain's most prestigious children's book award, and the Whitbread Award.These novels have proved great favourites with reading groups, causing readers to squirm with mingled horror and delight as she peels away the layers in all too familiar family relationships, exposing the tangled threads and conflicts beneath. Therefore, when the neighbours rabbit is found on the living room carpet the family can but only assume that Tuffy is the killer: the one to blame. A great read which will have children and adults alike waiting for the next bit of mischief had by Tuffy the cat. There’s also tons of illustrations, so I think this is a perfect book for parents to read-along with their children. He is a ‘cheeky’ kind of character always trying to justify his actions, which the children would like.

But starting a new life isn't easy, and soon Tuffy starts to wonder if he's made a terrible mistake . If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home. The family ends up covering up for this terrible cat by lieing to their neighbor about a dead bunny.I am so grateful to you for the time taken to prepare these and for the fact of you sharing it freely. The familiar settings of the book causes readers to consider what their own cat (pet) is thinking about their family, and what they could potentially get up to when they go off into the garden and beyond. If you like this book, here are some other books you might enjoy - including the further adventures of Tuffy the Killer Cat. This could be explained to the children and activities experimenting with the structure and form of the book could be done – ie.

It’s some good fun for kids, because later on the poor cat gets blamed by the dead of the neighbour’s pet rabbit and what happens next was quite hilarious.

It is ideal for readers in Year 3 and Year 4 but can also be used with less-able readers in Year 5 and Year 6.