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Ages: 5-11
A short animated film about Wayne the Stegosaurus. This is adapted from a children’s poem by Kenn Nesbitt.
Watch this video with your children, and then try some of our teaching and activity ideas below.
Teaching Ideas and Resources:
English
- Listen to the poem. Can you make a list of all of the rhyming words?
- Can you identify the rhyming pattern in each verse?
- Make a list of nouns, adjectives and verbs that are used to describe Wayne.
- Read the original poem on the author’s site. Could you perform this poem to an audience?
- Find out more about the author and use the information to create a biography.
- Could you write another verse to add to this poem?
- This poem is very negative about Wayne the Stegosaurus! Can you make a poem to describe his positive qualities?
- Write your own short story about Wayne.
- Write a diary entry from Wayne’s point of view.
- Write a report about the day that Wayne came to your school to learn new things.
Science
- Find out more about the stegosaurus. Can you write a report about one?
- Use this animation as part of your Dinosaurs topic. Don’t forget to explore our other Dinosaurs resources too.
Computing
- Could you make your own animated version of this poem using the written version on the author’s site?
- Could you choose a new poem and make your own animated version of it?
Art
- Create your own illustrations / paintings of Wayne.
- Create a comic strip about an adventure that Wayne might have.