Unit AB 

In Unit AB we have been learning about how and where authors get their ideas and choice of words from using published books as inspiration for our own ideas and stories. This week we have looked at Lottie and Walter by Anna Walker and Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen.

We were interested to learn that Walker’s inspiration for Lottie and Walter came from her own experience as a kid, being told there was a shark in the pool filter and feeling afraid to swim alone.

We spent time developing our own setting for a story and coming up with two characters, one that makes us feel scared and one that makes us feel brave. We developed them in our story seed book ready for use in a future story, and some of us even incorporated those ideas into our writing this week! 

We also investigated why Allen chose particular words for her rhyming patterns, and then loved using dictionaries to learn the meaning of tricky words in books that we are reading ourselves.

“I know my work didn’t seem organised because you might think the dragon is the scary character and the leopard is the brave character, but it is the other way around because the leopard has a moustache and also because it has a unicorn horn because baddies like unicorns.” - Harper