Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl contains a variety of activities designed to help children understand the book's plot, characters, language, and themes. Includes: - A unit of work with 11 lessons - A Roald Dahl biography, a video by Michael Rosen, a comprehension task and a class game - Reading, writing and speaking and listening activities - Developing making predictions skills using book covers (images, title, author, blurb) about plot, characters, themes and genre - Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters - Writing-frames to help children write about characters - Examining Roald Dahl's use of language - Creating a comic strip version to asses understanding of the plot - Tips for tackling new words - Cross-curricular content - Endangered species (Geography, Citizenship, nature and the environment)

Billionaire Boy by David Walliams is a complete 13 lesson unit of work with a 120-slide editable PowerPoint presentation, a 29-page booklet of worksheets and a step by step unit overview. The resource contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop knowledge and understanding of the plot, characters, language and themes of the novel. It can be used at either UKS2 or lower KS3 - depending on the ability of the class. Activities include: Analysis of the characters of Joe, Mr Spud, Bob and Lauren A variety of starter and plenary activities Discussion of key themes: bullying, family, friendship, wealth Developing inference and deduction skills Empathetic writing – Joe and Bob’s diary Speaking and Listening - Hotseating to develop character knowledge and understanding Studying David Walliams’s use of language, symbolism and structure Writing a book review for Billionaire Boy Studying and producing a newspaper article

The Twits by Roald Dahl Teaching Unit - 72 slide PowerPoint, 13 worksheets and unit overview The Twits is a brilliant scheme of work for low ability learners featuring a series of detailed lessons designed to develop pupils’ reading and understanding skills. The resource covers key areas required by the national curriculum and includes a range of activities: A brief biography of Roald Dahl with a short film by Michael Rosen A nine lesson scheme of work overview using the 4 part lesson structure Exploring - making predictions using the title, blurb and front cover Descriptive writing study - character portraits using description from the text Analysis of Mr Twit and Mrs Twit How Roald Dahl creates sympathy Storyboarding, comprehension and cloze exercises Writing empathetically as Muggle Wump Studying Dahl’s use of language - effective adjectives and verbs Understanding unfamiliar words - using a dictionary Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for Roald Dahl books: Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr Fox The Magic Finger

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (97-slide PowerPoint and 15 worksheets) is a brilliant Year 4/5 English scheme of work featuring a series of 11 lessons designed to enhance and develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl) includes a fully editable PowerPoint presentation with a wide range of activities and lessons for pupils of all abilities such as: A brief biography of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl with a short film about his life narrated by Michael Rosen An eleven lesson scheme of work overview/plan using the four-part lesson structure Exploring the text - making predictions using the title, blurb and front cover Descriptive writing - creating characters and settings Analysis of key characters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory including Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka How Roald Dahl creates suspense and sympathy in the novel And much more! Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for Roald Dahl books: Boy Fantastic Mr Fox The Magic Finger The Twits

The Merchant of Venice is a 143-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with 9 accompanying worksheets. It contains a progressive series of lessons that develop pupil knowledge and understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and language. This KS3 unit contains 12 lessons which cover a range of activities, including: Understanding the play’s plot Analysing the characters Exploring Shakespeare’s language and use of imagery Discussing the key themes and ideas of The Merchant of Venice Studying stagecraft - how Shakespeare creates and resolves conflict Context - women’s rights, Christianity and antisemitism in Elizabethan England Comprehension questions (with model answers provided) for each act. And a lot more. Click the images to preview this unit of work for The Merchant of Venice.

War Horse War Horse is a unit of work containing a 142-slide PowerPoint, 14 PDF worksheets and 13 lessons. This scheme of work explores the novel chapter by chapter, analysing the book’s plot, characters, themes and language through a range of engaging activities. These teaching resources can be used with Year 5 or Year 6 (Upper KS2) or with a lower ability Year 7 group either as a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme. Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons. Comprehension questions Chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding Research task – World War One Making predictions about War Horse using the cover, title, author and blurb Exploring and discussing themes Character analysis of Joey, Albert, Father and Captain Nicholls Understanding the features of a novel – how does Michael Morpurgo use language and narrative structure in War Horse? Close analysis of language in key scenes Role play and hot seating activities Understanding War Horse’s characters through empathetic writing – diary writing Developing inference and deduction skills Writing a newspaper story about key events in the story

This Charlotte’s Web unit of work has been created to develop key KS2 reading skills by exploring the popular children’s novel in detail. It covers the following areas of study: Inference and deduction skills Discussion and research skills Exploring character in detail How to write a response using quotations Examining plot, themes and language Activities for individuals, pairs and groups Think, pair, share tasks Hot seating and storyboarding Making a quiz Writing a front-page newspaper story Writing a book review Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular KS2 novels: The Silver Sword War Horse The Demon Headmaster Skellig Holes Billionaire Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Functional Skills: Reading This teaching resource is a detailed unit of work made up of an 88 slide PowerPoint presentation, 32 worksheets and a unit overview with 9 step by step lessons. All lessons are structured using the four part lesson plan (starter, introduction, development and plenary) and all can be tweaked and edited to suit your specific teaching needs. It includes: Full unit of work overview An introduction to Functional Skills Reading An examination of the features of written texts How to adapt writing to a particular audience and purpose How to find information quickly - skimming, scanning and highlighting texts Retrieving information from a text The use of presentational devices and the layout of a text Locating and responding to information in charts and tables An exemplar functional skills reading task Functional Skills reading assessment criteria

Functional Skills: Speaking and Listening This Functional Skills (Speaking and Listening) teaching resource is made up of a fully editable 78 page PowerPoint presentation, 16 accompanying worksheets and a detailed unit of work with step by step lessons. The resource contains 7 lessons, all of which are structured using the four part lesson plan format. Functional Skills: Speaking and Listening includes a variety of engaging tasks and activities and covers: Verbal and Non verbal communication Rhetorical devices and target markets Analysing TV shows Dragons' Den and The Apprentice Creating and delivering a sales pitch Using Functional Skills criteria to self and peer assess

The Highwayman - Unit of Work - Teaching Resources The Highwayman is a unit of work containing a 128-slide PowerPoint, 26 PDF worksheets and 15 lessons. This engaging scheme of work explores the poem verse by verse, analysing its narrative, characters, themes and language through a range of stimulating activities. These teaching resources can be used with either Year 6 (KS2) or Year 7/8 (KS3) depending on the ability of the students. Our unit for The Highwayman includes planning (planning provided with a 15-lesson unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 26 accompanying PDF worksheets. The resource can be used to teach a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme. Activities contained in the lessons include: Engaging verse by verse activities to consolidate understanding as children read through the poem Analysis of the characters of The Highwayman, Bess and Tim the ostler Exploration of the poem’s key themes Developing knowledge and understanding of poetic devices – similes, metaphors, building tension, tone and mood Using Point/Evidence/Explain to write about the poem Alfred Noyes’s ‘message’ – exploring the author’s purpose Cloze and sequencing activities to consolidate understanding Analysis of language in detail Role play - hot-seating activities to aid understating of characters Developing understanding of key characters through empathy writing activities