Traction Man is Here - Teaching Slides

The educational material from Focus Education UK Ltd. presents an array of engaging activities centred around the character Traction Man. The activities are designed to enhance children's literacy skills, such as understanding vocabulary, inference, and creative writing. For instance, children are prompted to predict Traction Man's capabilities and speculate on events like the 'Terrible Parachute Accident'. They are encouraged to deduce information from illustrations, such as discerning a boy's feelings about his present. Further exercises involve identifying the villains Traction Man defeats and discussing his special missions, utilising visual clues from his outfit. The material also explores grammatical elements, asking pupils to use adverbs and command verbs to construct instructions and to analyse the use of capital letters and sentence structure in proofreading tasks.

The teaching slides delve into the narrative and character analysis, prompting students to consider the traits that make Traction Man a hero and to find adverbs that describe his heroic actions. Additionally, the material integrates cross-curricular links with science, as children are tasked with classifying materials based on their properties and suitability for various uses, including Traction Man's outfits. They are asked to design an outfit for Traction Man, considering the properties of different materials and their applications in everyday life and musical instruments. The activities culminate with reflections and presentations on chosen materials, encouraging children to work scientifically by comparing, observing, classifying, and recording their findings about the use of materials in various contexts.