This engaging and informative lesson enables students to understand the key techniques used by J.K Rowling in her story opening of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.' In particular, students comprehend the plot and information in the opening chapter of Harry Potter and analyse what makes the opening effective, before utilising this understanding to compose their own imaginative story opening.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Collectively defining the features of effective story openings;
- Reading the opening to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, identifying the story opening techniques and comprehending the key events and information in the chapter;
- Analysing the effectiveness of each of Rowling's story opening techniques;
- Creating their own engaging story openings, utilising story opening techniques effectively and imaginatively throughout;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- The opening chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (freely available online);
- Effective Story Openings analysis template;
- Teacher answer sheet;
-Comprehensive lesson plan.
All resources are provided in Word (for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure formatting remains fixed between different computers).
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 7/8 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 10 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Collectively defining the features of effective story openings;
- Reading the opening to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, identifying the story opening techniques and comprehending the key events and information in the chapter;
- Analysing the effectiveness of each of Rowling's story opening techniques;
- Creating their own engaging story openings, utilising story opening techniques effectively and imaginatively throughout;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- The opening chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (freely available online);
- Effective Story Openings analysis template;
- Teacher answer sheet;
-Comprehensive lesson plan.
All resources are provided in Word (for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure formatting remains fixed between different computers).
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 7/8 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 10 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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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 J.K Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.' <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:<br /> - 1. Story Openings;<br /> - 2. Description of Hogwarts;<br /> - 3. Lord Voldemort;<br /> - 4. Harry's Developing Character.<br /> <br /> 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:<br /> - Engaging<br /> - Defining/ Understanding<br /> - Identifying/Remembering<br /> - Analysing/ Creating<br /> - Peer or self evaluating.<br /> <br /> All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO BOTH OF THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!<br /> <br /> This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of J.K Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.' 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.<br /> <br /> 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:<br /> - Engaging<br /> - Defining/ Understanding<br /> - Identifying/Remembering<br /> - Analysing/ Creating<br /> - Peer or self evaluating.<br /> <br /> 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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These are great! Thank you for sharing
Looks really good and some great ideas for tasks. Thank you!
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