Editable writing, maths and design prompts to support Book Week 2026
These matching slides are the perfect companion to your Once I Was a Giant 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, persuasive techniques, maths challenges and creative design ideas inspired by Once I Was a Giant by Zeno Sworder.
What's Inside:
Editable Literacy Slides (differentiated)
Cause & effect: deforestation - explore the causes and effects of deforestation using a facts page and graphic organiser
Circular tale - explore a worked example of a circular narrative, then plan and write an original circular tale about day turning to night
Onomatopoeia - fill in the blanks with onomatopoeia words to bring the forest to life
Persuasive techniques - learn about emotive language, rhetorical questions, and facts and reasons, then use them in a persuasive text convincing readers to save the forest
Text to text comparison - compare Once I Was a Giant with another book about the changing natural world
Editable Mathematics Slides (differentiated)
Number facts - use deforestation facts to explore numbers through place value, expanded form, halving, doubling and more
Word problems - addition & subtraction and multiplication & division
What would you keep? - survey classmates on which wooden item they'd most like to keep and graph the results
Editable Design Prompts (differentiated)
Design a poster - design a poster teaching people why it's important to care for trees, with a slogan, pictures and a fact
Wooden item - design a new wooden item that could be made from the tree, labelling its features
Design a brochure - inform readers about the impacts of deforestation
Plus 5 blank slides to use however you wish!
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