Year 6 'When Stars are Scattered': book club worksheet

“Callouts and Omar's story” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 English unit “'When Stars are Scattered': book club”, for children aged 10 to 11, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 28 to 29 of the year, 2 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Callouts and Omar's story

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain how callouts in a graphic novel show what characters say, think and feel.

A Look back3 min

1.
The writing cycle has a gap. Which stage goes in the gap?
EditPlanPublish
2.
Which part of the story is missing from the chain?
MiddleGlossaryIndex
3.
Circle the mark that should end this sentence: Did Ali run □
?.!

B Watch me, then you4 min

Omar waits in a food queue at the camp. Read what each of the three panels holds, then answer.

A row of plain tents in a dusty camp at evening, no people

Watch me

Panel 1 has a speech bubble, so Omar says this out loud.

Panel 2 has a thought bubble, so Omar's thought is private.

Panel 3 has a narration box, so the reader learns more about the camp.

Now you

1.
A box at the top of a panel says: ‘The camp was home for fifteen years.’ Which callout is this?
speech bubblethought bubblenarration panel

C Your turn6 min

Read each callout. Circle the callout that fits.

1.
A round bubble with a tail pointing to Omar says: ‘Hassan, come with me.’ Which callout is it?
speech bubblethought bubblenarration panel
2.
A cloud-shaped bubble says: ‘I hope we find Mama.’ Which callout is it?
speech bubblethought bubblenarration panel
3.
A box at the top says: ‘Rain fell on the tents all night.’ Which callout is it?
speech bubblethought bubblenarration panel
4.
A box at the bottom says: ‘Omar kept the notebook safe.’ Which callout is it?
speech bubblethought bubblenarration panel

Say it out loud: Look at the cloud-shaped bubble. What does Omar's thought tell you about how he feels?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “When Stars are Scattered runs in one straight line from the first page to the last, so there are no jumps.”

1.
Write what is wrong with Kit’s claim.

E Think deeper4 min

Rows of tents in a camp under a dusk sky, no people

1.
Omar is one of more than 300,000 people at Dadaab. Write one question you would ask someone else who lived there.

How did it feel?

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For the grown-up

Callouts and Omar's story · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Edit If they write Plan, remind them Plan comes before the draft. Ask your child what they check after the first draft is written.

2. Middle If they write Glossary or Index, remind them those belong in information books. Ask your child which part sits between the start and the finish of a story.

3. ? If they write a full stop, ask your child whether the sentence asks something. A question needs a question mark.

B

1. narration panel If they write speech bubble, ask your child whether a character is saying these words aloud or whether the words are a box above the picture.

C

1. speech bubble

2. thought bubble

3. narration panel

4. narration panel

D

1. Look for: Says the story jumps forward in time, for example two years later and then four more years later. If they only write that Kit is wrong, ask your child to look at the timeline and say where the story jumps forward in time.

E

1. Look for: A question about another person's life at Dadaab, not only about Omar.

Words to use

Say“Which bubble told you what someone was thinking, and how did you know?”

Instead of“Tell them what the book is about.”

After the sheet

Draw a three-panel comic about breakfast with one speech bubble, one thought bubble and one narration box. Ask them to name each callout and say who it belongs to.

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