A bundle of work loosely themed around superheroes. You can easily adapt the wording an images to suit the interests of your students. covers creative writing, persuasive writing and using speech.

Worksheets allowing pupils to make predictions or suggestions about the book based on the cover differentiated to 3 different levels.

A bundle of resources I used with as student with Autism who was finding creative wring challenging. Concrete experiences (receiving letters, doing a mock interview, photographs) and a clear structure helped him to construct a successful narrative with descriptions, and a clear structure.

Reading comprehension and writing tasks based around Ninja Equipment.

Story board and writing frame to support story writing on a pirate theme.

Information about historical pirate flags and a worksheet to design your own and then write about it.

A selection of activities to go with the comic poem The Sad Story of Lefty and Ned.

A set of activities linked to the poem Amulet by Ted Hughes.

A selection of resources for a lesson or lessons about the poem Jabberwocky. I ask students to find 10 nonsense words in the poem. Use the planning sheet to help them design monster. Write a description of their monster. Write a story of poem about their monster using some words they have made up, or made up words from the poem. Here you may need to spend some time deciding what these words mean. Finally an activity on non-fiction writing to support pupils to include titles, sub-titles, captions and to write in paragraphs. Use the example about Komodo dragons to spot these features. Use the information about Swordfish (easier) and Ichthyosaurus (harder as headings are not included and the information is not in order) or your own research to write your own non-fiction article about a real life monster.

A resource to help SEN students access an extract from The Prelude exploring images from the poem and how tension changes during the poem.

Introduction to adjectives with pirate related pictures to describe.

Various images associated with pirates. Useful as a discussion starter or writing stimulus.

Picture of the front cover with boxes in which to write your analysis. Differentiated to four different levels from blank to prompts and sentence starters.

Unit of work following the abridged version of Treasure Island edited by Pauline Francis in the ‘Fast Track Classics’ collection. I think this could be easily adapted/extended to follow the original text.

Information about tanks of the future with illustration that I used for a reading/research activity where my student summarised each section into one or two sentences. you could also make comprehension questions to use with this.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks. There is then a guided self and peer assessment activities followed by redrafting and final write up. I used this over a sequence of 3 lessons but mainstream learners would progress more quickly. Following on from my free resource The Captain.

Reading comprehension activity based on the history of Ninja. Includes short text and questions.

Writing activity based on reading the blurb. One with questions to answer the other asking students to write what the blurb tells them and to explain why they think this.

Reward tokens or tokens to conduct a pirate treasure hunt.