The Naughty Bus - Teaching Slides

The teaching slides from Focus Education UK Ltd. guide educators through a series of interactive activities centred around the story of the 'Naughty Bus'. Students are encouraged to engage with the story by predicting the contents of a present and whom it might be for, thereby stimulating their imagination and deductive reasoning. As they delve into the text, they revisit these questions to compare their initial thoughts with the information provided by the story. The slides prompt students to consider the author's use of punctuation, such as exclamation marks, and to discuss the reasons behind these choices, fostering an understanding of how punctuation can convey emotion and emphasis in writing.

The journey of the 'Naughty Bus' is brought to life through explorations of its various adventures and the settings it encounters. Students are asked to infer the bus's workplace from given clues, hypothesize about its next destination, and discuss why it might be driving on a table, encouraging them to draw on textual evidence and their own interpretations. The slides also focus on the bus's feelings, the use of capital letters and coloured text, and the sensory experience of the bus driving through beans, using descriptive words like 'squelchy' and 'squashy'. By examining the bus's promises and actions, children learn about character development and narrative consistency. Furthermore, the slides include language-focused activities, such as identifying sentence types, using time adverbials, and understanding the function of conjunctions, enhancing the students' grammatical skills in the context of storytelling.