My name is Brown Owl. I live in this tree.

Christmas is coming. Let's visit Mum's family.

Brown Owl introduces children to British Christmas traditions as he visits Mum's family down in Devon.

It includes key words and phrases from my rhyming picture book 'Brown Owl's Christmas in Devon'.

1) Learn key words from the story. Fill out the wordmat to use as a picture dictionary.

2) Read the rhyming picture book 'Brown Owl's Christmas in Devon'.

3) Place the story walk picture cards around the room

4) Hand out the differentiated worksheets (Level 1: single words, Level 2: short phrase, Level 3: longer phrase, Level 4: two phrases)

5) Children match the word/phrase on their worksheet with the picture card and write down the LETTER that they find

6) Put all the letters together to find the secret message!

Have fun reading and rhyming with Brown Owl!

For more information about my series of rhyming picture books, please visit www.readandrhyme.at