Sunrise Readers Book 5 We Come and Go Resources
Here you will find free downloadable resources to accompany Sunrise Readers Book 5 – We Come and Go. Please make as much use of these as you wish, and don’t hesitate to suggest other resources that you would find useful.
Do this activities for Sunrise Readers Book 5 :
How to use this book:
Power Point to accompany How to Use This Book, including worksheets and other useful visuals.
How to use the “talk about” pictures in the power point above:
- Emotions – teacher/ parent/ pairs ask questions. This exercise encourages children to talk about emotions and how to respond to them.
- Look at these pictures: Ask any relevant questions of your own. Some ideas are given below.
- “What is happening in this picture?”; “How are (they) feeling?”; “Why do you think they may be feeling ___ ?”; “Have you ever felt like this?”
- “When and why?”
- If you felt (sad/ angry/ ashamed etc.) what made you feel better?
- How can we help someone who is feeling (sad/ hurt/ lonely etc.)?
- What’s going on here? This exercise encourages observation, thinking skills and conversation.
- Look at these ‘busy’ pictures and talk about what’s happening. Teachers/ parents/ children ask questions such as (e.g. Page 19 Fun day at school)
- Q: What is happening in this picture? (People are making food/ buying and selling food.
- Where are they? (At school). How do you know? (From the title!)
- What kind of day is it? (Sunny/ windy/ rainy).
- Who is in the picture? (Tatenda and David, Jenny, Chipo Father, Mother and Mother, Uncle Tim and Aunt Pat and other people.)
- What are Father and Uncle Tim doing?
- What are the two mothers making? How are Tatenda and David helping them?
- What are Aunt Pat and Jenny doing? (Making and selling popcorn).
- If you were at the school fun day, what would YOU choose to eat from this picture?
- Class discussion: If your school had a fun day, what food would you like to make and sell? What else could you do at the fun day?
- Why did the school have a fun day? (To make money). If you had lots of money, what would you buy for your school?
Worksheets
You could print the following free downloadable worksheet in black and white.
Extra Reading – Grandfather and the Baby Pig
A popular story adapted from the Original Sunrise Readers Book 5
Print it out as a free downloadable PDF – make it into a booklet, if you can! Or read it together as a class on the Power Point.