Stone Age Boy

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And it got cold. Really cold, for a long time. Can you guess what it was called? No idea? It’s quite obvious… Ok, I’ll tell you… The Ice Age! The ending was my absolute favourite with the picture and a simple sentence as it had so much impact and drove home the idea that cave paintings were discovered by historians many years later and can be used as evidence. It was also just so bittersweet and lovely as it reminded us that Om really did exist! I love how the main character was influenced by his Stone Age friend into becoming an archaeologist as an adult! He learned along with the reader which made the story feel like a much more personal and relatable experience. Then it was warm. Then hot. Then cold again. Once that was out of the way humans discovered farming and began to settle down in villages. This all happened during the… during the Stone Age… excuse me… stop!

This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about 'Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills. Alongside this Stone Age Boy Reading Comprehension, we have a wealth of other resources to support reading this exciting story by Satoshi Kitamura. Created in partnership with Walker Books, our activities are perfect to use with your learners in class or your own little ones at home.This clip will be suitable for teaching History at KS2 in England, Foundation Phase and KS2 in Wales, KS1 and KS2 in Northern Ireland. Stone age people didn’t have plastic or metal. Can you make a list of modern objects that are made using plastic / metal? How would life be different without them? Use the information in the book to write a set of instructions, teaching people how to carry out one of the tasks that Stone Age people had to do (e.g. making fire, making tools). Great resource, so well made and presented. Wish you had more. Thank you for taking the time to make and share. They adopted new ways of burying their dead, building longbarrows on hilltops as a final resting place for bones.

Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1ABPupils could be asked to make a list of the ways life in the New Stone Age was different to life in the Mesolithic period: did it change a little or a lot? Don’t worry about that, he’s just saying pleased to meet you. These early Britons were hunter-gatherers. They used flint tools to hunt animals, like deer and mammoths. Here is one of them. I would like to introduce you to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great…