All children are familiar with Scooby Doo. We watched a Scooby Doo video and asked the children to write on their whiteboards words to describe the Scooby gang. The children chose similar words for each character. Some of the most popular responses are given below.

How do you describe the ingredients of a mystery? Maybe Scooby Doo has the answer. The children spotted " good and bad characters", "red herrings", "little clues", "adventure" and "baddie caught".

clever, intelligent, odd, geeky, sensible,	funny, greedy, chicken, cheeky, scared	handsome, brave, smart, cool, in charge	scared, funny, greedy, dirty, shaggy	beautifull, trendy, fashionable,

Year 3 Literacy objectives

T5 to discuss (i) characters' feelings; (ii) behaviour, e.g. fair or unreasonable, brave or foolish; (iii) relationships, referring to the text and making judgements;

T8 to write portraits of characters, using story text to describe behaviour and characteristics, and presenting portraits in a variety of ways, e.g. as posters, labelled diagrams, letters to friends about them;