Cloud Tea Monkeys - teaching resource

Cloud Tea Monkeys – Year 5/6 English Teaching Resource

Bring Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham to life with this engaging English teaching unit. Designed for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils, the resource features a fully editable 90-slide PowerPoint presentation and 20 worksheets. The unit supports a wide range of reading and writing objectives and offers progressive, differentiated learning opportunities.

This unit covers:

• Developing inference and deduction skills

• Analysing characters, relationships, and narrative voice

• Exploring key themes such as poverty, hope, and kindness

• Speaking and writing about characters and major events

• Investigating language choices in depth

• Grammar activities focusing on adjectives, verbs, tense, conjunctions, and punctuation

• Writing diary entries, reports, and empathetic responses

• Producing persuasive and narrative writing

Ideal for whole-class teaching, guided reading, or literacy intervention, this flexible unit links comprehension and composition with grammar in a meaningful context.

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