Ted Hughes is also a poet he shows this really well in his book and he as put together story features and poetry features . In chapter 1 of this story there is a sign of poetry features such as Crash ,Crash ,Crash this is repetition as it is repeated many times . The family who has a picnic on the hill feel an earthquake. Can you find out what causes earthquakes? Looking to see how your class' reading comprehension skills are coming along? This The Iron Man Differentiated Reading Questions Activityis just what you need. Differentiated to support all abilities, the worksheets feature comprehension questions for each chapter of the story, as well as the answers for you. The Iron Man, illus. by George Adamson. London: Faber and Faber, 26 February 1968 ISBN 0571 08247 5

Use the robot paper templates to create profiles of different robots or to write a new robot story (see Resources below).A catalogue of Pembroke’s Hughes-Adamson material is available on request from the College Librarian Pat Aske, at [email protected] In 1999, Warner Bros. released an animated film using the novel as a basis, titled The Iron Giant, directed by Brad Bird and co-produced by Pete Townshend. Compose the song that the space-bat-angel-dragon might sing every night as he flies around the Earth. The first North American edition was also published in 1968, by Harper & Row with illustrations by Robert Nadler. Its main title was changed to The Iron Giant, and internal mentions of the metal man changed to iron giant, to avoid confusion with the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. American editions have continued the practice, as Iron Man has become a multimedia franchise. The Iron Man’s challenge at the end of the story involves laying on some flames. What happens when different materials are heated? Why do they change in these ways?

Make a stop-motion animation based on the story or about another robot. Look at these examples for inspiration: The Iron Man arrives seemingly from nowhere, and his appearance is described in detail. He first appears falling off a cliff, but his various pieces reassemble themselves, starting with his hands finding his eyes and progressing from there. He is unable to find one ear, which was taken by seagulls earlier, and walks into the sea to find it.

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Rautamies, transl. into Finnish of The Iron Man by Sinikka Sajama; illus. Andrew Davidson. Karkkila: Kustannus-Mäkelä, 1993 ISBN 978-951-873-267-2 Der Eisenmann, transl. into German of The Iron Man by U.-M. Gutzschhahn, illus. by Jindra Čapek. Frankfurt-am-Main: S. Fischer (Fischer Taschenbuch) 1997 ISBN 3-596-80154-0