Time Travelling With A Hamster Learning Contracts
Indpendent Learning Contracts for Time Travelling With A Hamster
Product Summary
This Independent Learning Contracts pack contains 9 section plans to support teaching and learning for the text
Time Travelling With a Hamster by Ross Welford
“My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve.”
On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it
Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father’s life. Al soon
discovers that time travel requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft,
setting his school on fire and ignoring philosophical advice from Grandpa Byron.
All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer…
Time Travelling With a Hamster is a funny, heart-warming race-against-time – and across generations –
adventure that you will won’t be able to put down.
Interest age: 9+ Reading age: 9+
Themes explored include: family, courage, chaos and order, overcoming fear, will to survive, fear.
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Time Travelling With a Hamster
Independent Learning Contracts
Single User Licence
- Comprehensive Independent Learning Contracts Pack
- Explicit exploration of conscious communication skills
- Explores author use of language and text organisation
- Develop inferencing skills, identifying themes and author purpose.
- 9 section independent learning contracts with explainer videos
- Suitable for single classroom/single teacher use
Time Travelling With a Hamster
Independent Learning Contracts
Multiple User Licence
- Comprehensive Independent Learning Contracts Pack
- Explicit exploration of conscious communication skills
- Explores author use of language and text organisation
- Develop inferencing skills, identifying themes and author purpose.
- 9 section independent learning contracts with explainer videos
- Suitable for team/MLE/ multiple teacher use
