This is fantastic for children who have little or no English and still images from the animation can be used to scaffold or stimulate writing. The Literacy Shed website has a short film called ‘La Luna’ with ideas and inspiration for activities to follow. I also love the story ‘Katie and the Starry Night’ which works beautifully with the Oliver Jeffers book and can lead to art activities based on the Van Gough painting. Role-play and drama is a great way to get the children to innovate their own ideas for how to catch a star and the wackier the better! I like to use ‘Marking Ladders’ to provide steps to success to support children’s learning – they can be easily found if you Google them. This can be written up in a simple format following the key features of writing instructions. The children learn this text map and then innovate it, choosing their own way to catch one.
I then like to change things a little by creating an instructional text ‘How to Catch a Star’. The simple illustrations can be used as a sequencing activity on a time line or a washing line as the children retell it independently. I have found that a Talk 4 Writing approach works really well with this story as it has a simple and repetitive structure that is easy to learn orally through use of a simple story map. If you want to be less ethereal then Perry Como’s ‘Catch a Falling Star’ creates a more upbeat feel…
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