Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. There is also an abundance of metaphors and similes which could be picked out and looked at in detail as part of a literacy lesson.

The people in Tashi’s village grow tea leaves, which is their lively hood and when Tashi’s mother fell ill she had no other choice but to go and pick tea leaves, however, she struggled greatly. And careful observers will note that the underwear’s expression also changes, adding a bit more creep to the tale. Susan Tranter wrote that "Mal Peet's work is notable for its refusal to submit to categories – the constraints which label what a book should be about, and who it should appeal to.You can make cross-curricular links to PSHE in relation to poverty, worrying and child carers (as Tashi worries about her mother being sick and how they will pay for things if she isn't working) and in relation to Geography as a window into India- it's landscape and industry (tea plantations).

The document includes possible written outcomes, key vocabulary from the text and week by week lesson overviews. Though food is intrinsic to our very existence, the public’s interest was piqued and our pursuit of gastronomy has been on the rise ever since. A good illustrated book telling a tale about a little girl named Tashi who lives with her mum in the foothills of a mountain where there are tea plantations. Children make predictions and use short snippets of the text to start to give them clues about how this magical story begins.

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At the end of the lesson, drama techniques will be used to explore how Tashi feels at the point in the story children have got to. There is an engaging slideshow, a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activities and all the printable resources needed. This book offers a whole school approach to the teaching of grammar and punctuation that is fully matched to the demands of the English grammar and punctuation test and the new curriculum. Originally published in 1999, and illustrated by Alan Marks, this tale of a Himalayan tea-picker's daughter has just been reprinted, with gorgeous new artwork by Juan Wijngaard! This story follows a young girl named Tashi and her mother who picks tea leaves in the tea plantations until one day Tashi's mother falls ill.The use of colour and description in this book is amazing- it really makes you feel like you are there and experiencing what Tashi is feeling. The descriptions are fantastic: "he looked like a man whose brain was on fire" was a favourite of mine! They will position themselves on an imaginary line to show how much they either agree or disagree with each one. When her mother falls ill the monkeys help Tashi to do her mothers work for her so that they can afford the doctor, however the monkeys bring some very special cloud tea, it is enough to impress the tea taster.