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Language Legends @Home
Week Eight
How this works
Language Legends is all about Talking, Listening and Understanding.
The activities help with these skills, which are really important for children to learn and make
friends. Each activity has a short explanation of how it helps.
This is not about reading or writing, so it is fine for adults to help with reading and writing elements.
The most important thing is to have a conversation, to talk together to work things out, to help
your child understand and to explain what they know.
Top Tips for the workbook
1. Take it slowly – you don’t have to do all the activities at once. Maybe do about 15-20
minutes (or less) and leave the rest for another day.
2. It is not about quickly going through activities – the main point is talking and listening to
each other. Follow your child’s lead.
3. Do a quick reminder each day of work you have done already – ask your child what they
can remember and help fill in any gaps.
4. Encourage your child to ask if they don’t understand. This is a really important skill.
5. This workbook belongs to your child. They can use it to draw, doodle, write about the story.
Top Tips for encouraging communication
1. Put aside a little time each day for talking together. Share family stories and experiences,
encourage your child to share their thoughts and feelings.
2. Encourage your child to ask questions if they are unsure of something – this really helps
with understanding.
3. Talk about words – what they look and sound like and what they mean.
4. Try to get rid of distractions, like the TV or phones. Listening to your child helps them
learn how to listen in return.
5. Ask your child to expand on what they say – talk and listen to find out more.
Each week we will look at a news article or short story in our Language Legends workbook.
This week is a short story about woodland creatures who take their revenge.
Answers can be found on the back page
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Story in a nutshell
This task helps children to remember the main points of a story.
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Short Story
The Woodland Monster
On the edge of a small village was a beautiful
wood called Castle Dene. It was home to many
woodland animals, who lived in harmony,
except for one thing that was a menace to all.
In the village lived a stripy, ginger cat called
Fang. He was spoilt and fed so much he was
huge – almost as big as a Labrador! Fang lazed
around all day in a big old armchair and spat at
anyone who tried to move him. Every evening,
he would saunter into the wood where he made The Plan
it his mission to catch a woodland creature. He
crouched silently, prowled around and when They had spent the day making a giant
an unsuspecting creature passed, he scarecrow, using twigs, moss, and leaves, and
pounced! He taunted whoever he caught, covered from head to toe with slimy brown mud
throwing them up with his razor sharp claws, from the pond. Mice, birds, and toads filled the
grinning with pointy fangs. No one was exempt branches of the scarecrow to give the
from his horrible ways. impression it was moving. The huge tawny owl
was unrecognisable sitting on top, wings
One day the animals had a meeting. “Enough is spread outwards and dripping in the same slimy
enough,” cried the rabbits, “we have to do mud. As the sun was setting, the scarecrow cast
something,” twittered the birds, “it has to stop,” a huge shadow and looked terrifying!
squeaked the mice. They decided to get their
revenge; to stop Fang’s terrible behaviour. As Fang prowled around looking for someone
scare, he felt a strange coldness descend. Just
They planned and worked all day and were as he was about to crouch in wait for his next
ready by dusk. The rabbits kept lookout for victim, he saw the most terrifying monster he
Fang. As they saw him slinking by, they had ever seen. It growled and spat, it fluttered
thumped their back legs on the ground to warn and squawked. “Stay out of my wood,” the
the other animals, who were ready and waiting. monster growled in the most intimidating way.
“Stay out of my wood or you will have me to
answer to.” With that, the monster gave an ear
piercing shriek that almost deafened Fang. “Go
now, and never come back. RUN!”
Fang had never been so scared. He ran out of
the wood as fast as his legs would carry him. The
woodland animals cheered and congratulated
each other on their great victory. “We gave him
a taste of his own medicine,” croaked a toad,
“I don’t think he will ever come back.” And he
was right. They never did see Fang again.
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Summarise the story
Read and talk through the questions with your child. Your child can write in the answers if they
want to, or you can write what they say.
• Who was this story about?
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• Where did it happen?
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• When did it happen?
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• What two things do you remember about Fang?
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• How did the woodland animals plan their revenge?
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Deeper Dive
Looking at one section of the story helps with understanding and using language. Work through
the questions together. Encourage children to pick out any words they don’t understand. Help
them by explaining what they mean. We have highlighted a few words that might be tricky.
As Fang prowled around looking for someone scare, he felt a
strange coldness descend. Just as he was about to crouch in wait
for his next victim, he saw the most terrifying monster he had ever
seen. It growled and spat, it fluttered and squawked. “Stay out of
my wood,” the monster growled in the most intimidating way.
Questions
Read and talk through the questions together. Either you or your child can write in the answers.
• Who was prowling around the wood?
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• What did Fang notice as he was looking for someone to scare?
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• What did Fang think of the scarecrow?
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• What did the monster tell Fang to do?
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• Think of another word for terrifying.
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Woodlands
Woodlands support their own life and ours - they have more biodiversity than any other habitat in Britain.
Trees are home to a huge number of plants and insects, which all provide food for other animals higher up
the food chain. Woodlands are therefore important not only for the trees that grow there, but to the plants
and woodland creatures. They are also important for managing our climate and helping to clean our air.
Since 1930, half of Britain's native woodlands have been chopped down, so many people are working hard
to try and protect our woodlands.
Many famous stories happen partly in a woodland. For example, the story of Robin Hood takes place in
Sherwood Forest. There is an oak tree there now that is said to have hidden Robin Hood – oak trees can
live 1000 years or more. All of these stories have some of the time in a wood or forest. Do you know what
the story is? Can you think of any other stories that happen in a woodland?
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Word of the day
Knowing and understanding lots of words can really help children to understand things better, to
read, learn and to use their talking to get by in the world. This section focuses on teaching one
word in depth.
The word of the day is…
In the story it says:
…the monster growled in the
most intimidating way
Intimidating
How well do you know this word?
Write the word in the section below where it fits the best with your child’s understanding.
Never saw or heard it Heard it but not sure what Know this word and can
before. it means. use it in a sentence.
Write the word here if you Write the word here if you Write the word here if you
don’t know it: have some idea: know this word:
Write your sentence here if you know this word:
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What does this word mean, what is the definition?
The word intimidating means:
Frightening or threatening.
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What does this word sound like?
• What sound is at the beginning? ___________________________________________
• What sound is at the end? ________________________________________________
• How many syllables does it have? __________________________________________
• Write down as many words as you can using the letters in the word intimidating.
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• Write a sentence using the word intimidating.
For example: My dog has a really fierce bark, which the postman finds quite intimidating.
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• Draw a picture to help you remember the word.
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Word activity
This activity helps with understanding the word of the day. Use the pictures to talk about the
word and think about what it means in different situations. Talk about what you would find
intimidating and why.
Would you find a dog like this
intimidating? Why?
Would you feel intimidated by a crowd
of people like this. Why?
This woman looks angry – would you
be intimidated if she were angry with
you? Explain your answer.
I would be intimidated by this maths
problem – what do you think about it?
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Understanding
This quick quiz helps with the understanding of the story. Talk about the statements and have your
child say whether they are True or False. Encourage them to explain how they know, with
examples from the story.
Quiz
• Fang was a nice cat.
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• The woodland animals did the right thing to plan how they could stop Fang.
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• All of the animals in the story could be found in a real British woodland.
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• They actually gave Fang some horrible tasting medicine.
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• This is a true story. How do you know?
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Talking, explaining & story telling
Giving children the opportunity to explain, tell stories or predict what might happen next is a
really good way to build their language – it is like a communication workout!
A Woodland Story
Talk through these questions with your child and encourage them to think about a story that
could happen in a woodland.
As we have seen, many stories have things that take place in a woodland. Make up your own
woodland story. It could be about the animals in the woodland, the trees or people who live
there. Think about the following questions when making up your story
• Who would be the main character or characters?
• Where and When would your story happen?
• What would happen in the story – would there be a main event, maybe people trying to
tear down the trees … or something else?
• What would the main character / characters do about the problem – how would they try
and sort it out?
• What would happen next – what would happen as a result of their actions?
• How will your story end?
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What do we think?
When children think and reflect on their learning, it can really help them to remember and make
sense of the activities. Have your child tell you / fill in the details below.
• My favourite activity was:
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• Because:
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• One thing I learned was:
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• The person who helped me was:
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You’re a star!
Don’t forget to colour in your medal for a job well done.
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Workbook answers
Story in a nutshell
• Who was this story about? Woodland animals and a horrible cat called Fang.
• Where did it happen? In Castle Dene Wood.
• When did it happen? In the evening, as the sun was setting.
• What two things do you remember about Fang? He was huge, ginger, spoilt, he
bullied the woodland animals.
• How did the woodland animals plan their revenge? They made a monster scarecrow to
frighten Fang away for good.
Deeper dive
• Who was prowling around the wood? Fang.
• What did Fang notice as he was looking for someone to scare? He noticed a strange
coldness descend.
• What did Fang think of the scarecrow? He thought it was a terrifying monster.
• What did the monster tell Fang to do? Get out of his wood.
• Think of another word for terrifying. Scary, horrible, hideous, awful, grim, alarming.
Word of the day
• What sound is at the beginning? i
• What sound is at the end? ng
• How many syllables does it have? 5
• Write down as many words as you can using the letters in the word intimidating. Timid,
in, mid, dating, mitt, tin, din, timing, mat, mad, man, tan.
Understanding
• Fang was a nice cat. FALSE
• The woodland animals did the right thing to plan how they could stop Fang. TRUE
• All of the animals in the story could be found in a real British woodland. TRUE
• They actually gave Fang some horrible tasting medicine. FALSE – They said they gave
him a taste of his own medicine, which means they treat him the way he treated
them. They made him scared as he had made them scared.
• This is a true story. FALSE - It is a made-up story. How do you know? We know
because the animals talked and made a scarecrow which wouldn’t happen in real
life.
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