Curious Incident (Haddon) - full scheme of work, 118 slide PPT PLUS all resources - fiction

This resource is a complete scheme of work to teach the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, including a 118 slide PPT plus all resources.

The scheme is suited for year 8 through to 11, dependent on ability. Teacher discretion is advised with the teaching of the novel and most tasks can be easily adapted for varied abilities.

The PPT includes tasks / lessons on the following aspects:

• the detective story genre
• inference and deduction
• character development
• narrative voice
• context (autism, the Cottingley Fairies, Hound of the Baskervilles)
• language and structure
• themes (family, science v supernatural, restriction and more)
• spoken language opportunity (speaking in role as a character)
• features of descriptive writing vs non fiction writing and analysis of Chris’ style
• Writing from a POV
• sentence structures and punctuation analysis
• cross referencing within a text
• analysis of various written styles and comparison to the novel
• peer assessment opportunities

All lessons are tried and tested and all paper resources are included as Word, PDF/ publisher files.

Updated May 2022