This lesson Let’s Think in English develops pupils understanding of symbolism through “Little blue and little yellow” by Leo Lionni. Pupils examine the front cover of the book before considering the characterisation of the colours and what this might suggest. Pupils are encouraged to recognise the story has a symbolic/metaphorical reading and to consider how they come to understand this
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After studying Blue Yellow pupils consider what meaning the book which appears to about two colours has for us. Here a Year 4 pupil in Islington provides their response.
An Islington Year 3 pupil after the LTE lesson creates an additional page for the story.