1-2 weeks worth of lessons
The short story Spiderhands by V.H. Hey with comprehension questions and tasks. Aimed at Y7 but also enjoyed by up to Y11 EAL students.
Spiderhands is about a boy who was born with six fingers on each hand - this has advantages and disadvantages. He’s bullied by George Smith, makes friends with Angela, becomes a keyboard player in a band. He lives in England but wasn’t born there, his dad’s in prison, he has a whacky Grandad who lives in a van …
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Used for my lower set year 8 and they are hooked after just one chapter. Lessons can be extended and built on to cover a lot of topics and discussion ideas. This is going to built on over a number of weeks alongside our normal curriculum to increase practice in sentence structure, inference, prediction and recall. Thank you.
Fantastic resource, will use alongside Immersive reader on TEAMS!
Seems great. Smashing story dealing with some interesting issues, great for the types of YPs I'm teaching. Tasks simple, clear and accessible. Lots of opportunity to develop the ideas raised and cross curricula study. Thank you.
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