English KS3 / KS4 War Horse Comprehension and Analysis Joey is Sold - opening of the novel

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. This is an extract-based activity on a popular novel. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification.

The lesson comes with a writing activity which allows students to imaginatively develop the ideas from the extract.

This lesson can also be used for cross curricular History lessons, as the extract focuses on the use of animals in WW1