When the Sky Falls WW2 Unit Literacy and History Scheme KS2.

Extremely fun and engaging unit of work based on this fantastic new Carnegie award shortlisted book!

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A six week unit of work based on chapters 1-6 of the book ‘When the Sky Falls’ with comprehension tasks, writing tasks, history WW2 objectives and activities and a plenty of challenges included throughout.
History inspired activity researching and writing a leaflet (non-chronological report) about rationing in the war.
Narrative and poetry writing activities.
Role playing and listening to music.

PowerPoint** for chapters 1-6 with 60 slides.

X30 sets of success criteria for each writing task included.
x30 sets of extract analysis for each genre ready to print.
x 30 Writing checklists for each writing genre included.
Comprehension worksheet PDFs included

History focus including substantive knowledge and vocabulary for WW2 topic.

Extensive Vocabulaly and comprehension linked to the domains for all 6 chapters
Comprehension and critical thinking challenges
Comprehension answers included
Writing tasks with a clear structure: ideas to inspire; text analysis; plenty of SPAG opportunities ; writing activities, editing and publishing
Planning overview.

Suitable for KS2

Writing opportunities:

Write a rationing leaflet (non-chronological report)
Narrative writing: continuation of chapter 6 (Blitz street scene).
Poetry writing

If you are interested in more writing opportunities and history activities including an evacuee research topic, letter writing and designing and writing about a lighthouse in the war- you may be interested in my ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ unit.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/letters-from-the-lighthouse-literacy-reading-writing-and-history-unit-12727046

Or purchase my two book bundle: Letters from the lighthouse alongside ‘When the Sky Falls’
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/letters-from-the-lighthouse-literacy-reading-writing-and-history-unit-12727046

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