A Thriller?

Alma - A chilling doll story

Alma is a little girl who ventures into town in the snow.

She is drawn to a shop window by a familiar looking doll.

She enters the shop... what will happen when she goes inside?

Teaching Ideas

Let the students listen to the soundtrack of the film, turn off IWB, can they guess what kind of film this is? Thriller etc?  What moods? There is quite a lot of suspense etc.

Students could predict what happens at certain points e.g. What will happen when she goes into the shop?

Students could ask questions at specific points e.g. Why is the town empty? Why does the doll just look like her? Where is the shopkeeper?  What does he do with the dolls?

The students could write a sequel to this film perhaps changing parts of it.

Can the students draw/describe what they think the owner of the shop looks like? Maybe produce a wanted poster.

 Here is some fabulous work create by the Year 6 class at Greenfields Primary School.

http://www.mapleclassgreenfields.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/story-writing.html?m=1

These are tremendous stories with some very sophisticated plots and sentence structures.