Pirate Adventure

Pirate Adventure

Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta

Pirate Adventure is an exciting fantasy story. The story is from the Oxford Reading Tree and is one of the Magic Key stories and so includes characters that most children would know.

The story is available as an Ebook on the Oxford Owl website and can be easily shared with the children, as well as having a couple of comprehension activity games to play alongside. 

In the story there is excitement and adventure, and would give good opportunity to guess what would happen next. I am using the book within a fantasy stories topic for year 1, the first week of which is concentrating on settings of fantasy books. Within this week, the children will be thinking of describing settings, some of which will be chosen from this book. The children will also be predicting what will be happening in the book and creating their own ending, this would work well with this story, finding out what happens when the characters meet the pirates.

This is a well written story, with good examples of punctuation which could be taught to the children. It also has areas of excitement and tension and so children could experiment with expression when reading the story for themselves.