This engaging and thought-provoking double-lesson resource aids students in developing a secure understanding of the final chapters (15 to 17) of Morris Gleitzman’s 'Once.’ In this section of the text, Felix, Barney and all of the children from the cellar are boarded onto the train towards the death camp, and Felix and Zelda make their miraculous escape.
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving information;
-Analysing the writer’s use of language;
-Summarising text events.
The sessions include a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, explanation and deeper thinking activities. A clear, colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the learning.
This lesson has a particular focus on summarising the events of the text. Students create a storyboard of the text, breaking the story up into six main stages and concisely summing up the main events in each section. A storyboard template is provided (in both Word and PDF) to support this task.
There’s a lot in the session (21 slides in total) so I would recommend breaking into two lessons. The lessons are most suitable for students in upper KS2, but may be adapted for other year groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.
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