An exciting KS3 scheme of learning exploring Fantasy fiction, building up to a reading assessment. Covering texts such as:
Harry Potter
Cursed Child
A Pinch of Magic
Sprinkle of Sorcery
Alice in Wonderland
Hobbit
Includes all lessons, assessment materials, extracts, links, homework tasks, and links to reading for pleasure.
Full of extras!
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 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.
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 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 to explore the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction to develop narrative. This is explored through an extract from Harry Potter and then through an extract from ‘Cursed Child’ to explore a different form.
A KS3 writing to describe unit exploring Science-Fiction as a genre to inspire high-quality, crafted descriptions.
Over 20 hours of lessons.
Fully resourced and formatted for exercise books!
Students should consolidate their knowledge of the elements of language and structure developed over the course of the term. Throughout this lesson, students will complete a SLOW WRITING response to an image stimulus. With the support of the D.S.S.Z.L structure, students will craft their writing to meet the criteria of each paragraph. Ensure students are crafting and not rushing into their writing.