Dahl Class learning booklet Wk beginning 22/06/20 1 The Velveteen Rabbit (Workbook) The Velveteen Rabbit by Marjory Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson Reading Workbook Week beginning 22 nd June 2020 Lesson 1: Monday 22nd June 2020: All About Antonia Barber LO: To find out about the lady behind the stories In our reading lessons we are now reading The Velveteen Rabbit Or how Toys become Real, which is a children's book written by Marjory Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. This book is what is called an ‘archaic text’. Archaic means old or old-fashioned (over 50 years old – or older). Many stories and information texts written in the past contain important ideas and values that still influence our culture today. As children we need to start noticing and thinking about archaic land figurative language, so that we can understand more difficult ideas and texts as we grow older. The story of The Velveteen Rabbit is about a soft toy’s journey towards becoming ‘Real’……… through the love of a child Why am I being asked read each part through twice? You will notice that you are asked to read the text for each day twice – and you might think that’s strange! However, there is a good reason for this… Quite often, when we read a piece of writing for the first time, our brains are so busy concentrating on decoding new words and sentence structures that we do not take in the meaning behind the words. How to use this workbook When you are working through the questions in this workbook, remember: 1. To write your answers in your best handwriting in your home learning / exercise / notebook. Don’t try to answer the questions in boxes in the workbook. 2. “Blue box is book” = The blue boxes are there to show you what to write / say and how to set out your work / ideas. Anything in the blue boxes is what you write in your book. Don’t write the black, write the blue – but without drawing the box round it! 3. When you are answering reading comprehension questions, you should always answer in complete thoughts (full sentences) and use the exact words from the text to prove your answer. The blue boxes will show you how… What to do I do when I have finished my reading lesson for the day? When you have finished your lesson and marked your work, using the answers booklet, you can take a break and move on to your next lesson.
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Dahl Class learning booklet Wk beginning 22/06/20
1 The Velveteen Rabbit (Workbook)
The Velveteen Rabbit by Marjory Williams and illustrated
by William Nicholson
Reading Workbook Week beginning 22nd June 2020
Lesson 1: Monday 22nd June 2020: All About Antonia Barber
LO: To find out about the lady behind the stories
In our reading lessons we are now reading The Velveteen Rabbit Or how Toys become Real,
which is a children's book written by Marjory Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson.
This book is what is called an ‘archaic text’. Archaic means old or old-fashioned (over 50 years
old – or older). Many stories and information texts written in the past contain important ideas
and values that still influence our culture today.
As children we need to start noticing and thinking about archaic land figurative language, so
that we can understand more difficult ideas and texts as we grow older.
The story of The Velveteen Rabbit is about a soft toy’s journey towards becoming ‘Real’………
through the love of a child
Why am I being asked read each part through twice?
You will notice that you are asked to read the text for each day twice – and you might think that’s strange! However, there is a good reason for this…
Quite often, when we read a piece of writing for the first time, our brains are so busy concentrating on decoding new words and sentence structures that we do not take in the meaning behind the words.
By reading the text through twice, we free up our brains to read it a second time and really get to understand the ideas, emotions and images the author is
On the first reading, we read it to get to grips with any tricky words. On the second time we read it, we really get to understand it and appreciate what the author is saying.
How to use this workbook
When you are working through the questions in this workbook, remember:
1. To write your answers in your best handwriting in your home learning / exercise / notebook.
Don’t try to answer the questions in boxes in the workbook.
2. “Blue box is book” = The blue boxes are there to show you what to write / say and how to set out your
work / ideas. Anything in the blue boxes is what you write in your book.
Don’t write the black, write the blue – but without drawing the box round it!
3. When you are answering reading comprehension questions, you should always answer in complete
thoughts (full sentences) and use the exact words from the text to prove your answer.
The blue boxes will show you how…
What to do I do when I have finished my reading lesson for the day?
When you have finished your lesson and marked your work, using the answers booklet, you can take a break
and move on to your next lesson.
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Before we read ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’, let’s find out more about the author by reading a short biography.
1st Reading: Check for tricky words Read the first part of the story, printed below. Circle any words you’re not sure of. There is a glossary at the end of each piece of writing so you can
look up the words you are not sure of. (Or you could look the words up in an online dictionary like this one: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/.)
Book author Margery Williams Bianco was born in London in 1881. At
the age of nine, she moved to the United States, and alternated
between living in England and America for the rest of her life. She
became a professional writer at the age of 19 and had her first novel
published when she was 21. In 1922, she began writing for
children. The Velveteen Rabbit was the first, and best known, of her
30 children’s books. In 1937, she won a Newbery Award
for Winterbound, a novel about poor children who survive by using
their own wits and abilities. She spent her final years in Greenwich
Village in New York and died there in 1944.
Glossary
Alternated: changed from one to the other
Newbery Award:An American award given to the best children’s author each year
Novel : a long printed story about imaginary characters and events
Professional: used to describe someone who does a job that people sometimes do as
2) Marjory Williams died _____________ ________________________________________________________
3) Marjory lived as an author alternating ______________________________________ 4 ) Marjory Williams’ most famous book was_____________________________________________________
Self-evaluation
This time I remembered to______________________________________________________________________
Next time I need to remember ___________________________________________________________________
Lesson 2: Tuesday 23rd June 2020: The Velveteen Rabbit
LO: To read The Velveteen Rabbit so that we can get better at understanding of ‘archaic texts’.
1st Reading: Check for tricky words Read the first part of the story, printed below. Circle any words you’re not sure of. There is a glossary at the back of this text so you can look up the
words you are not sure of. (Or you could look the words up in an online dictionary like this one: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/.)
Remember: You can listen and read along with this story if you prefer, but don’t listen to the whole thing just yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGijPLiUgE&t=732s
There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.
There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten. For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon everyone else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real. The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles. Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.
Glossary
insignificant and commonplace- not important, very ordinary Mantelpiece – a shelf hung over a fireplace
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Put on airs - Be puffed up; vain and proud Rigging – Ropes (Strings on the model) that hold up the masts and sails of a boat Sateen – a smooth, shiny material like satin Skin Horse - an old fashioned toy horse on wheels, which was sat on and pulled along. It was called a ‘skin’ horse because it had a stitched covering—as if it had real skin. Splendid – fine and beautiful, grand, marvellous, and wonderful Sprig of holly - holly is a plant with spiky leaves and red berries that is used in Christmas decorations. A ‘sprig’ is a twig or little bit of branch with leaves on it. Snubbed - Ignored and made fun of Velveteen – a soft cotton material that feels like velvet, which has a furry texture 2nd Reading: Reading for understanding: Reading with RIC
R: For how long did the boy love the rabbit in Christamas day? I: Why do you think the velveteen rabbit was ‘forgotten’? How do you know? (Remember to prove it! & Explain it) C: Why do you think the Skin horse was kind to the velveteen rabbit? (Remember to say why with the actual words from the text.)
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6) Self-marking and self-evaluation Check and correct your answers using the separate answer booklet in purple pen (or any other colour will
do).
Then (underneath your answers) evaluate your answers.
Self-evaluation
This time I remembered to______________________________________________________________________
Next time I need to remember ___________________________________________________________________
The Velveteen Rabbit
Reading for understanding: Reading with RIC
R:
The boy loved the velveteen rabbit for____________________________________
I know this because in the text it says the words “____________________________________________”.
I:
I believe the Velveteen rabbit was forgotten ____________________________________ I think this because in
the text it says “_________________________________________________________________”.
C :
I think the skin horse was kind to the velveteen rabbit because _______________________________________
____________________________________________We are told in the text “__________________________”_
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Lesson 3: Wednesday 24th June 2020: The Velveteen Rabbit
LO: To read The Velveteen Rabbit so that we can get better at understanding of ‘archaic texts’.
Reconnection activities
a) Retrieval Practice
Without looking back at the story setting, how much of it can you remember from yesterday? Use what you can remember to complete these sentences and write them in your home learning book. There are some ideas in the answer booklet about how you could complete these sentences correctly – but
yours may be better. Check them to see…
b) Prediction
Sometimes authors use the setting of their story to make us expect something good or bad to happen in the story.
Sometimes authors use the setting to make us expect one thing, then surprise us by doing something completely
different to what we expected.
What do you think might happen next? What makes you think this might happen?
1st Reading: Check for tricky words Read the next part of the story, printed below. Circle any words you’re not sure of. There is a glossary at the end of the text so you can look up the
words you are not sure of. (Or you could look the words up in an online dictionary like this one: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/.)
Remember: You can listen and read along with this story if you prefer, but don’t listen to the whole thing just yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGijPLiUgE&t=732s
b) Prediction
I think what might happen next is _______________________________________________________________
I think this because __________________________________________________________________________
The velveteen rabbit was a Christmas present for
The rabbit was forgotten because
The Skin horse was ________ to the Velveteen rabblt.
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He
was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the
seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to
string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of
mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their
mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and
would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange
and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and
experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
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"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Glossary Boast and swagger – show off Nana – a maid or nanny who looked after the boy Fender – a fence placed in front of a fireplace
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2nd Reading: Reading for understanding: Comprehension Questions
1) Why did the skin horse know all about ‘Nursery magic’? How do you know
this?
2) What did the Skin horse tell the velveteen rabbit about how toys became
real? Use the text to explain your answer
3) How long did the Skin horse tell the velveteen it took to become ‘Real’?
4) The skin horse tells the velveteen rabbit “once you are Real you can't be
ugly, except to people who don't understand.” What do you think the horse
means by this?
Lesson 4: Thursday 25th June : The Velveteen Rabbit
LO: To read The Velveteen Rabbit so that we can get better at understanding of ‘archaic texts’.
Reconnection activities
a) Retrieval Practice
Without looking back at the story setting, how much of it can you remember from yesterday?
Reading for understanding: Comprehension Questions
1) I think the skin horse knew all about ‘nursery magic because ______________
I know this because in the text it says the words, “_________________________________________________”_
2) The Skin horse told the velveteen rabbit that to become real ___________________________________I
think this because the text tells us “_____________________________________________________________”
3) The skin horse tells the velveteen rabbit it takes ________________________________________________. I
know this because the text tells us”_____________________________________________________________”
4) I think “once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand means ___________
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Use what you can remember to complete these sentences and write them in your home learning book.
There are some ideas in the answer booklet about how you could complete these sentences correctly – but
yours may be better. Check them to see…
What do you think might happen next? What makes you think this might happen?
1st Reading: Check for tricky words
Read the next part of the story, printed below.
Circle any words you’re not sure of. There is a glossary at the end of the
text so you can look up the words you are not sure of. (Or you could look
the words up in an online dictionary like this one:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/.)
Remember: You can listen and read along with this story if you prefer, but