A two-part, fully resourced lesson introducing students to fairy tales, including conventions.
Lesson Two: What are fairy tales
Students will gain an initial understanding of the genre to support their homework research, which will include conventions and key-terms to be utilised throughout the topic. Students should be informed of their assessment task and informed of the skills they will need to develop over the course of this term.
Lesson Three: Fairy tale conventions
Students will explore and identify the conventions in fairy tales. This lesson should link, yet differentiate the conventions in Fantasy fiction (Term 5 SOL).
Week Overview: By the end of the week, students need an understanding of what makes a fairy tale, common conventions, different types of fairy tales, and the oral origins of the genre.
Three versions (LA/MA/HA) of a 90-minute creative writing masterclass exploring the following to support P1, Q5 writing:
A breakdown of the mark scheme
Evaluation of successful creative writing
Key terms
‘Exam hacks’
Modelled answers
Used for 90 minute intervention sessions.
A workbook for each session to support revision and consolidate knowledge.
A weekly reading lesson booklet exploring different topics in the news to develop reading skills and enhance cultural capital in preparation for KS4 studies. Each week, teachers plan bespoke intervention tasks to support reading skills, utilising the data collated from the Accelerated Reader STAR tests.
A weekly KS3 intervention reading booklet exploring 6 key scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Each week, teachers plan bespoke tasks for the class and individuals using the data established and collated from the Accelerated Reader STAR tests.
A lesson exploring utopian and dystopian descriptive writing through evaluation of others examples. This lesson focuses on developing different AFL strategies.
An exciting KS3 scheme of learning exploring Fantasy fiction, building up to a reading assessment. Covering texts such as:
Harry Potter
Cursed Child
A Pinch of Magic
Sprinkle of Sorcery
Alice in Wonderland
Hobbit
Includes all lessons, assessment materials, extracts, links, homework tasks, and links to reading for pleasure.
Full of extras!
An engaging, fully-resourced lesson consolidating understanding of a range of Fantasy fiction characters, such as: Harry Potter, Queen of Hearts, and Gollum.
A lesson exploring narrative structure and the role of characterisation during exposition. The text linked to this extract is A Pinch of Magic - the website has a fantastic resource bundle which I use with the lesson.
A lesson exploring the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction through exploration of an extract from Harry Potter. Students will then be explored to a new form through an extract study of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
A three-lesson sequence exploring Alice in Wonderland and the ability to make inferences on character. The lesson explores annotation skills, reading strategies, inference skills, and crafting analytical responses.
A lesson to explore the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction to develop narrative. This is explored through an extract from Harry Potter and then through an extract from ‘Cursed Child’ to explore a different form.