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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Huge Bundle!
This huge ‘Charlie and Chocolate Factory’ bundle contains the entire series of lessons, in addition to the clear, detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet!
The engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the story. Included are questions, tasks and activities for all 30 chapters of the text, broken down into ten triple lesson resources:
-Chapters 1-3 - ‘Here Comes Charlie’, ‘Mr Willy Wonka’s Factory and 'Mr Wonka and the Indian Prince’
-Chapters 4-6 - ‘The Secret Workers’, ‘The Golden Tickets’ and ‘The First Two Finders.’
-Chapters 7-9 - ‘Charlie’s Birthday’, ’Two More Golden Tickets Found’ and ‘Grandpa Joe Takes A Gamble.’
-Chapters 10-12 - ‘The Family Begins to Starve’, ‘The Miracle’ and ‘What it Said on the Golden Ticket.’
-Chapters 13-15 - ‘The Big Day Arrives’, ‘Mr Willy Wonka’, and ‘The Chocolate Room.’
-Chapters 16-18 - ‘The Oompa-Loompas’, ‘Augustus Gloop Goes Up the Pipe’ and ‘Down the Chocolate River.’
-Chapters 19-21 - ‘The Inventing Room’, ‘The Great Gum Machine’ and ‘Goodbye Violet.’
-Chapters 22-24 - ‘Along the Corridor’, ’Square Sweets That Look Round’ and ‘Veruca in the Nut Room.’
-Chapters 25-27 - ‘The Great Glass Lift’, ‘The Television Chocolate Room’ and ‘Mike Teavee is Sent by Television.’
-Chapters 28-30 - ‘Only Charlie Left’, ‘The Other Children Go Home’ and ‘Charlie’s Chocolate Factory.’
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities.
Additional worksheets and templates are also provided (In both PDF and Word) to enhance a number of the deeper thinking activities.
All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students across lower KS2, having being used successfully in the past with both year 3 and year 4 children.
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The Twits - Big Bundle!
This ‘The Twits’ big bundle contains all of the Matilda lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet!
The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. Each of the lessons include a wide range of activities, questions and resources for each chapter of the story. The activities are divided into 7 double lesson packs, meaning that there are at least 14 lessons included (perhaps more, depending upon the individual class and context).
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for the creative tasks.
All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are most suitable for children in lower KS2, although with minor adjustments they could be used for slightly younger and older year groups.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Big Bundle!
This resource bundle contains all of the ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ lessons, the comprehension activities booklet and the knowledge organiser!
The engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of the text. The entire novel is broken down in to 7 double lesson packs, meaning that there is a total of 14 individual activity sets here.
The Opening Chapters (2-19);
Chapters 23 to 47
Chapters 53 to 83
Chapters 89 to 113
Chapters 127 to 157
Chapters 163 to 197
The End of the Novel (199 to 233).
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities.
The resources are suitable for students in either KS3 or KS4, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.
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Private Peaceful Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIVATE PEACEFUL LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER.
This engaging, varied, and informative collection of lessons is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Michael Morpurgo’s’ ‘Private Peaceful.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete the lessons having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Skellig Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE SKELLIG LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of David Almond’s ‘Skellig.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Skellig Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in David Almond’s ‘Skellig.’
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. The Derelict Garage;
- 2. Michael and Mina;
- 3. The Development of Skellig
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.

Skellig - Michael and Mina!
This engaging and informative lesson helps students to make detailed interpretations about two of the main characters in David Almond’s Skellig: Michael and Mina. In particular, students comprehend the character traits of the two characters, before analysing the development of their relationship over the course of the story.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Defining and exemplifying the key character traits of both Michael and Mina;
- Reading and tracking Michael and Mina’s relationship development throughout the story;
- Analysing how and why Michael and Mina’s relationship becomes so strong by the end of the story;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts;
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Character Profile Sheets - Michael and Mina (pdf and word);
- Relationship Development Graph (pdf and word);
- Essay Template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a year 7 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 4 and 9 with minimal adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Fantastic Mr Fox Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE FANTASTIC MR FOX LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the story, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

Fantastic Mr Fox - The Very Clever Mr Fox!
This fun and informative helps students to gain a deeper understanding of the main character in Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox:’ Mr Fox himself! Students use their skills of inference and deduction in order to establish key information about Mr Fox’s character, likes, dislikes, and mannerisms. They then create a character profile using the information that they have gathered!
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Considering how Roald Dahl was influenced by real-life foxes in his characterisation;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the opening of Fantastic Mr Fox, in which Mr Fox’s character traits are revealed;
- Inferring and deducing key features about Mr Fox from across the text;
- Creating a character profile for Mr Fox, utilising knowledge that they have gathered from over the course of the lesson;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Text Detectives Worksheet (and answer sheet);
- Character Profile Template (Word and PDF);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 3 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 1 and 8 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

Fantastic Mr Fox - Structure of the Story!
This fun and informative lesson helps students to understand the narrative structure used by Roald Dahl throughout ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’ In particular, students identify the features of each stage of the narrative structure within the story, before recreating sections of the structure themselves!
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Taking part in a fun group quiz to recap on the key elements of the plot leading up to the ending;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the ending of Fantastic Mr Fox, answering comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding;
-Understanding features of narrative structure and applying the plot of Fantastic Mr Fox to the individual elements;
-Recreating elements of the plot, using their understanding of the stages of narrative structure;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Storyboard Template (and PDF version);
- Recreations Template (and PDF version);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 3 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 1 and 8 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

Fantastic Mr Fox - Boggis, Bunce and Bean!
This fun and informative lesson helps students to understand the descriptive language techniques used by Roald Dahl in his descriptions of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean in ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’ In particular, students analyse how Dahl’s language is used to create imagery, before designing and describing their very own mean farmers!
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Completing a card-sorting activity to define and exemplify each of the descriptive devices;
- Reading and understanding extracts from the opening of Fantastic Mr Fox, in which the farmers are described;
- Identifying and analysing Dahl’s use of language devices throughout the description of the farmers;
- Writing their own language device-filled descriptions of their farmers, with support from a clear template;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Language Analysis Worksheet (and answer sheet);
- Cards for Sorting Activity;
- Planning Template (Word and PDF);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 3 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 1 and 8 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Stone Cold Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE STONE COLD LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER.
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Robert Swindells’ ‘Stone Cold.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Holes Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HOLES LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Louis Sachar's 'Holes.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Holes Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Louis Sachar’s novel ‘Holes.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Sachar’s key messages throughout the novel.
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Stanley Yelnats;
- 2. The Warden;
- 3. Kissin’ Kate Barlow and Sam;
- 4. The Importance of the Past.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.

Holes - Kissin' Kate Barlow and Sam!
This engaging and informative lesson helps students to understand the key events of the sub-plot in Louis Sachar’s ‘Holes’ - the story of Kissin’ Kate Barlow and Sam. Students demonstrate their comprehension of the key events in Kate and Sam’s life, before forming their own opinion on Kissin’ Kate’s justification for becoming an outlaw.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Reading and understanding the selected extracts to comprehend the key events of the sub-plot;
- Storyboarding the key events (using the template provided) to demonstrate their understanding of key quotes and ideas;
- Using textual evidence to show a deeper understanding of the sub-plot, considering the writer’s ideas and the historical context;
- Forming their own viewpoint about Kissin’ Kate’s actions through a writing to argue piece;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts;
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Storyboard Template;
- Analysis of the Sub-Plot worksheet (and student answer sheet);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 7 and 8 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 4 and 9 with minimal adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Of Mice and Men Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE OF MICE AND MEN LESSONS, THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided. There is also a fun ‘Pointless’ Game included, to test your students’ knowledge of the text!
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Macbeth Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE MACBETH LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET AND THE MACBETH KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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The Woman in Black Huge Bundle!
THIS HUGE RESOURCE PACK CONTAINS ALL OF THE POPULAR WOMAN IN BLACK LESSONS, AND ALSO THE WOMAN IN BLACK KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE WOMAN IN BLACK COMPREHENSION BOOKLET.
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Susan Hill’s ghost story ‘The Woman in Black.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Hill’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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The Woman in Black Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Susan Hill’s ghost story ‘The Woman in Black.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Hill’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

The Woman in Black: The Features of Ghost Stories!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to show a detailed and sustained understanding of the conventions of effective ghost stories, through analysis of extracts from Susan Hill’s ‘The Woman in Black.’ They study how individual features of subject matter (such as the setting and the hero) and language (e.g descriptive features) are used to create suspense and tension in the mind of the reader.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Defining the key elements of ghost stories;
- Planning a ghost story using the key features;
- Identifying the elements of ghost stories within key extracts of The Woman in Black;
- Analysing the effectiveness of Hill’s features of ghost stories in The Woman in Black;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extracts from the blurb and Chapter 1 of The Woman in Black;
- Template for creating their own ghost stories;
- Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.