The Nowhere Emporium

Main Focus: Comprehension – Prologue and Ch 1

This KS2 resource is a comprehension with vocabulary and retrieval questions. This activity focuses on chapter 1 of “The Nowhere Emporium” and is beneficial for your classes comprehensive understanding. This activity has been differentiated in 3 ways, for different degrees of capabilities.

Main Focus: Setting Descriptions – Whole Book

This resource focuses on 4 chapters of “The Nowhere Emporium” (Chapters 1, 9, 6 & 25). Each chapter has its own set of questions designed to allow your class to look at the way in which the writer has described the different settings in which the characters have ventured through. This resource has been differentiated in 3 different ways for varying capabilities.

Main Focus: Sentence Openers: Ch 4-9

The writer of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’   has used a variety of different sentence openers. We have extracted a number of openers used from chapters 4 to 9. Your class will have to classify each opener. Types of openers used are; fronted adverbial, conditional clause, conjunction, pronoun or proper noun. This resource has been differentiated in 3 ways.

Main Focus: Spelling – its or it’s Ch 4-13

In this KS2 resource we have focused on the spelling of ‘its’ and ‘it’s’. The first task is to distinguish the writers use in the blurb of these two spellings. The rest of the activity has taken sentences from chapters 4 to 13 and allows your class to place the correct ‘its’ or ‘it’s’ in the space provided. This resource has been differentiated in 3 ways for different levels of capabilities.

Main Focus: Vocabulary Extension Ch 12-15

This resource is designed to expand your classes vocabulary. The author of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ uses a variety of vocabulary. In this activity your class will complete the sentences using words that would best fit. This activity has been differentiated 4 ways for a variety of capabilities.

Main Focus: Word Class Ch 17-18

This resource focuses on verbs and nouns. Many words can be used as both a verb or a noun. Your class will look at extracts taken from chapters 17 to 18 of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and distinguish the what word class the underlined word is. After this your class will then write a sentence using the other word class. This resource has 3 different activities for differing capabilities.

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This resource is a comprehension with vocabulary and retrieval questions. This activity focuses on chapters 23 to 25 of “The Nowhere Emporium” and is beneficial for your classes comprehensive understanding.

This activity uses different types of questions to add to your students comprehensive understanding of these chapters. Vocabulary, retrieval and inference questions are asked. This activity has been differentiated in 3 ways, for different degrees of capabilities.

Main Focus: Punctuation Ch 31

We have taken a paragraph from chapter 31 of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and removed the punctuation.

Your class will have to rewrite the paragraph adding all of the correct punctuation in the correct places.

This resource has been differentiated 4 ways for different capabilities. Answers have been included.

Main Focus: Word Exploration Ch 36-37

We have taken sentences from chapters 36 to 37 of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’, For each underlined word, your class will have to write down its word class along with a synonym and an antonym.

They will then give a definition of the word in the context of the sentence. This activity has been differentiated in 2 ways. Answers have been provided.

Main Focus: Spelling pages 191 - 216

This activity is designed to help your class identify and correct the spelling mistakes.

We have taken extracts from pages 191-216 of the book for this activity. Your KS2 class will read and identify where the mistakes have taken place and accurately write the correct spelling.

We have differentiated this activity 4 ways for different capabilities.

Main Focus: Figurative Language (Whole Book)

The author uses many different types of figurative language in the book. This resource is designed to help your class identify the different types of figurative language that has been used to deepen their understanding and also begin to reflect on how they affect the reader.

We have taken different phrases from the whole book of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and beside each phrase your Year 5 / Year 6 kids will have to identify the type of figurative language that has been used.

The types of figurative language included are: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration and idiom.