Reading and Writing : Bog Baby

Thursday 05 February 2026

We’ve been reading The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis and using it for our reading and writing learning.

It is a lovely story and has enabled us to retrieve information and start to infer the characters’ feelings from the pictures and text. We’ve also talked about wild animals and nature.

We’ve orally rehearsed sentences and been using conjunctions to make them more interesting. The children have also written some sentences, sometimes using conjunctions too.

Help at home by talking about The Bog Baby story. What would you do if you found a beautiful little creature? There is a video version here, read by the author. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)

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