A three-lesson sequence exploring Alice in Wonderland and the ability to make inferences on character. The lesson explores annotation skills, reading strategies, inference skills, and crafting analytical responses.
A lesson exploring the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction through exploration of an extract from Harry Potter. Students will then be explored to a new form through an extract study of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
A lesson exploring narrative structure and the role of characterisation during exposition. The text linked to this extract is A Pinch of Magic - the website has a fantastic resource bundle which I use with the lesson.
An engaging, fully-resourced lesson consolidating understanding of a range of Fantasy fiction characters, such as: Harry Potter, Queen of Hearts, and Gollum.
A lesson exploring utopian and dystopian descriptive writing through evaluation of others examples. This lesson focuses on developing different AFL strategies.
Students will craft their subverted fairy tale this week for their end of term assessment. Throughout this week, students will plan, craft, and evaluate their writing by utilising the skills and knowledge developed over the past 6 weeks.
Students will complete a baseline assessment to demonstrate their current ability to write descriptively. This will inform planning for week three and establish the needs of the group. To support marking of this, please use the ‘Whole-Class Feedback’ sheet attached in the week one folder.
Following on from the previous lesson, students will craft their linguistic devices into their writing using a visual stimulus. This lesson covers an introduction to planning, but predominantly focuses on the use of linguistic devices and varied vocabulary (LP1, Q5 – A05 – Strand 3)