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This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the second in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Kate Cunningham’s 'Vlad and the Great Fire of London.’ This lesson covers the middle section of the text (from the moment the fire starts, up to the point at which Vlad sees the soldiers blowing up buildings).

The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving key information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Linking the story to its historical context.

The lesson contains a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper thinking activities. The PowerPoint presentation (19 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. The lesson has a particular focus upon the historical context of The Great Fire of London. For the deeper thinking task, children use the resources available to them, in addition to the research template (provided in both Word and PDF) to find out additional information about the fire. They then link this information to what they read in the story.

There is a lot of content here, so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in upper KS1 (I originally used these resources with a year 2 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.