Editable writing, maths and design prompts to support Book Week 2026
These matching slides are the perfect companion to your Dawn printables — ideal for classroom display, interactive discussions or independent work tasks.
Designed to help you plan Book Week with ease, these editable slides include writing prompts, language feature activities, maths challenges and creative design ideas inspired by Dawn by Marc Martin.
What's Inside:
Editable Literacy Slides (differentiated)
Alliteration - learn what alliteration is with a worked example, then hunt for alliterative words in the book and write extended alliterative sentences
Nouns & verbs - sort words from the book into nouns and verbs
Powerful verbs - match the author's strong verbs to simpler synonyms
Spotlight on verbs - use powerful verbs in new sentences, or write definitions, synonyms and sentences for each
Picture prompt - write a story inspired by a scene from the book, such as the leaping fish or the frog and the fly
Editable Mathematics Slides (differentiated)
Word problems - addition & subtraction and multiplication & division
Reflections - design a mirror reflection on the water, or draw reflections of 2D shapes
Favourite creature - survey classmates on their favourite dawn creature and graph the results
Editable Design Prompts (differentiated)
Symmetrical creature - design a butterfly or dragonfly with a matching wing pattern on both sides
Book cover - design a cover for Dawn or a companion title, in the illustrator's style
One word - choose a powerful dawn word and design an illustration to match
Plus 5 blank slides to use however you wish!
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Download the matching printables to support each differentiated activity!
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