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This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the first 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 opening section of the text (up to 'SMOKE!’).

The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Making predictions;
-Retrieving key information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings.

The lesson contains a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper thinking activities. The PowerPoint presentation (16 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. For the deeper thinking task, children use their skills of retrieval and inference to create a character profile for Vlad, based on the information provided in the story opening. A clear and well-structured template is provided to aid the completion of this activity (in both Word and PDF).

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.