Predicting with The Simpsons: Fly vs Fly – Film-Based Literacy Lesson

Engage your students this spooky season with this high-interest video-based reading lesson, perfect for developing key prediction skills!
This ready-to-use, low-prep lesson uses The Simpsons: Fly vs Fly Halloween short (a parody of sci-fi horror classic The Fly) to help learners practise predicting story events from clues stated and implied.

Through guided discussion, strategic pauses, and a structured prediction task, pupils will justify their ideas with evidence and reflect on the consequences of characters’ actions — all while enjoying a spooky, age-appropriate cartoon.

What’s Included:

• Editable ActivInspire flipchart with learning objective and structured tasks (PDF included).
• Prediction worksheet tracking key moments from the video
• Clear learning objective linked to reading comprehension goals
• Plenary task encouraging discussion of the story’s theme or moral
• Video links to both parts of Fly vs Fly (YouTube)

Key Features:

• Engaging Halloween-themed lesson using The Simpsons
• Focuses on the reading skill of prediction, aligned with UK National Curriculum
• Great for whole-class, small group, enrichments, or cover work
• Editable resources to adapt for your learners
• Builds critical thinking and inference through structured activities
• Incorporates engaging, age-appropriate multimedia to support comprehension
• Perfect for Halloween, science fiction units, or skills-based reading lessons

Perfect For:

• English / Literacy / Guided Reading lessons
• KS2 or potentially LKS3
• Engaging reluctant readers
• Cover lessons, enrichments or homework tasks
• Reading skills lessons themed around Halloween, sci-fi, or horror