Viking Boy Book Literacy Viking Unit. English and History

A six week unit of work based on chapters 1-6 of the book ‘Viking Boy’ with comprehension tasks, writing tasks and a plenty of challenges included throughout.
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PowerPoint** for chapters 1-6 with 72 slides.
PDF version included too.

X30 sets of success criteria for each writing task included.
x30 sets of extract analysis for each genre ready to print.
Planning skeletons for each writing genre included.
Writing checklists and posters for each writing genre included.

Now includes newly added writing bookmark prompt cards for each child. Covers narrative writing, letter writing and report writing.

History focus including substantive knowledge, chronological timeline for the Vikings and Viking vocabulary.

Extensive Vocabulary and comprehension linked to the domains for all 6 chapters
Comprehension and critical thinking challenges
Comprehension answers included
Writing tasks with a clear structure: ideas to inspire; text analysis; plenty of SPAG opportunities ; writing activities, editing and publishing
History focus with a case study of a famous Viking longship and writing opportunities linked to longships.
Planning overview.

Suitable for KS2

Perfect book to accompany the Viking topic and study of longships.

Writing opportunities:
Information text writing: writing an information text about a Viking longship with a case study of the famous Gokstad Viking longship
Letter writing from Gunnar to Odin
Narrative writing: writing a description of a Viking battle

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