Beegu - Teaching Slides

The teaching slides from Focus Education UK Ltd. provide an interactive and exploratory approach to understanding the story of Beegu, an alien character who has landed on Earth. Students are encouraged to investigate clues from the illustrations and text to deduce what has happened in the narrative. Starting with the front cover, they are prompted to record their ideas and hypotheses about the unfolding events. The slides guide them through a series of questions that invite them to consider Beegu's location, the time of day, and her interactions with the environment and other characters. For example, students are asked to speculate why Beegu might be lost, what she might say to the rabbits she encounters, and why they do not understand her.

As the story progresses, the slides prompt further reflection and critical thinking, asking students to interpret Beegu's feelings, the reactions of other characters, and the significance of various settings and objects. Students are also encouraged to engage creatively with the text, writing speech and thought bubbles for the characters. The slides also focus on developing literacy skills, with checklists for sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation, as well as exercises involving time adverbials and conjunctions. The teaching materials are designed to foster empathy and understanding through Beegu's experiences, while also integrating cross-curricular links with science, the arts, and numeracy, such as designing clothes for Beegu and exploring everyday materials.