This is a fantastic 2 week Reading & Writing unit (10 days and 2 bonus lessons) linked to Armin Greder’s amazing book ‘The Island’ - a rich text full of wonderful themes to explore: bullying exclusion racism refugee human rights and xenophobia (dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries). It includes all documents, support files, a 105 page PowerPoint, individual lesson planning and sample texts written to inspire children. Lesson outline: 1: What is an island (understanding and description)? 2: What is the author’s message? 3: What clues can you find in the text to infer meaning? 4: How can you recognise adverbs, including those for time, place and manner? 5: What is the newcomer feeling - what is his experience? 6: To write an informal letter the correct format responding to key events in the text. 7: To write a formal letter in the correct format responding to key events in the narrative. 8: What would the local newspaper report? 9: How can I write an alternative ending to the story? 10: What happened when the stranger left the island on his raft? Bonus 2 lessons: 11: Write an alternative version to a selected part of the story. 12: Write a character description.