Year 5/6 Suspense narrative 2 week unit based on Francis short film

This is a two-week (could be stretched to 3 weeks) narrative unit based on the short film Francis (as seen on Literacy Shed). I used the transcript of the film as I didn't feel my class were ready to watch the video. We analysed examples of 'spooky' stories, explored the features, performed 'Francis' to our Year 6 class, and then the children wrote their own suspense stories to go in a 'Restricted Section' of the library.

This is a brilliant unit, loved by all of the children and a pleasure to teach! You don't need to buy any resources - you'll need some torches (raid the Science cupboard), a notebook, and some black backing paper and metallic pens to make your working wall look great. We went on to study 'The Watertower' afterwards - just a recommendation if anyone (like me) finds that they don't want the unit to end!