The Night Bus Hero

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Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Raúf's craft is so beautiful, you are immersed in the story as soon as you open the book and everything feels so real. The book challenges stereotypes about both homeless people and bullies, questioning the definition of a hero and whether people really can change? This is the story about how four classmates have a massive impact on the life of Ahmet, a boy that comes to their school as a refugee from Syria. An inspiring and sweet talethat should help children be the best they can be and realise the power of kindness.

Hector is a most unlikable protagonist, but then readers see his family's dynamics and the things he does are almost understandable in his need to get some attention his way. And while you may feel some empathy, it only lasts momentarily, as he commences his bad acts again. But, Hector is a boy who is and does deserve redemption. A clever artist who needs his talents redirected. The three way chats, in which they are joined by other animals, about web spinning, themselves, other humans—are as often informative as amusing, and the whole tenor of appealing wit and pathos will make fine entertainment for reading aloud, too. Your class will have to answer the questions to reflect on the events in the entire story once they’ve finished the book. The questions will help them to reflect on what they have read.The character arc is absolutely brilliant, indeed is the heart of the story. From an uncaring, cruel bully, to an empathetic, considerate hero. The focus of this activity is punctuation and more specifically, inverted commas. Your class are challenged to find the inverted commas in the passages or adding them in to the appropriate sections of the sentences. I enjoyed this story very much - the tranformation of the main character, Hector, from nasty bully to hero was relatively simplistic, but effective and powerful. Your class will count the syllables in each line of the haiku poem and see whether they were written correctly.

I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention. But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the truth! And it's only gotten worse since I played a prank on the old man who lives in the park. Everyone thinks I'm just a bully. They don't believe I could be a hero. But I'm going to prove them all wrong... I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually, I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention. Skateboarding around Piccadilly Circus with a friend on afternoon, Hector decides to stay longer by himself, when his sees the homeless man, whose trolley he'd sunk and whose name he has learned is Thomas, suddenly appear and break into a run. Naturally, when another statue goes missing, Hector is convinced it's Thomas doing it, and decides to find him and turn him over to the police. And to do that, he needs to enlist the help of Mei-Li, but will she help someone who she clearly does not like? And together can Mei-Li and Thomas help Hector overcome his need to be bad? But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the truth! And it's only gotten worse since I played a prank on the old man who lives in the park.

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Three reading comprehension activities linked to chapters four, five and six of The Night Bus Hero. Each chapter has a comprehension activity that includes 20 questions that work on different skills as well as also having the answers included separately. Inform your class that they need to read chapter 1 of ‘The Night Bus Hero’. Using the worksheets differentiated out in 5 different ways, your class will add the correct punctuation into the sentences. This resource focuses on capital letters, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, inverted commas, apostrophes and full stops.