This resource pack provides discussion prompts, activities and creative tasks designed to support reading The Ocean and the Bones in the classroom, school library or book group.
It is suitable for UKS2 and KS3 and supports cross-curricular links with English, History, Science, Art and PSHE.
Read this book for the following themes:
- Stone Age Life – survival, shelter, tools and daily life
- Nature and Survival – the power of the ocean and the struggle to stay alive
- Friendship and Trust – building trust across differences
- Belonging and Acceptance – listening to and accepting outsiders
- Belief and Ritual – how people in the story understand nature, death and the unknown
- Grief and Letting Go – how characters deal with loss
