Unit of work following the abridged version of Treasure Island edited by Pauline Francis in the ‘Fast Track Classics’ collection. I think this could be easily adapted/extended to follow the original text.

A sequence of lessons to get pupils to use adjectives, persuasive writing and to evaluate themed around a creative project building pirate forts as part of a topic following the book Treasure Island. I used it in English lessons but could be adapted for DT.

A bundle of resources I used with as student with Autism who was finding creative wring challenging. Concrete experiences (receiving letters, doing a mock interview, photographs) and a clear structure helped him to construct a successful narrative with descriptions, and a clear structure.

Writing activity based on reading the blurb. One with questions to answer the other asking students to write what the blurb tells them and to explain why they think this.

Worksheets allowing pupils to make predictions or suggestions about the book based on the cover differentiated to 3 different levels.

Picture of the front cover with boxes in which to write your analysis. Differentiated to four different levels from blank to prompts and sentence starters.

Reading comprehension and writing tasks based around Ninja Equipment.

Reading comprehension activity based on the history of Ninja. Includes short text and questions.

Analysing the description of The Captain from the opening of Treasure Island.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks. There is then a guided self and peer assessment activities followed by redrafting and final write up. I used this over a sequence of 3 lessons but mainstream learners would progress more quickly. Following on from my free resource The Captain.

Information about tanks of the future with illustration that I used for a reading/research activity where my student summarised each section into one or two sentences. you could also make comprehension questions to use with this.

Pictures of front cover: Blank - higher Boxes with arrows - Middle - Boxes arrows and sentence starters Lower.

Various images associated with pirates. Useful as a discussion starter or writing stimulus.

Fact file of the pirate Mary Read

Anne Bonny fact file