This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make precise interpretations regarding the ending in Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom.’ In particular, children identify the features of successful endings, analyse these features in Chapter 10 of the story, and create their own logical, imaginative story endings.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Storyboarding the key events of the text leading up to the ending;
Reading the ending of the story and answering comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding;
Defining and identifying the key features of effective endings;
Analysing the effectiveness of the features that Morpurgo uses in his own ending;
Creating their own alternate ending, utilising the features that they have learnt over the course of the lesson;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Storyboard Template;
Story Detectives Worksheet;
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 4 and 5 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 8 with some adaptations. The word documents are within the zip file.
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Kensuke's Kingdom 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 Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Kensuke's Kingdom.’ 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 (most of which contain enough resources to be taught over 2-3 lessons each) based on: - Michael's World Trip; - Characterisation of Kensuke; - The Ending. 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.
Kensuke's Kingdom Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE KENSUKE'S KINGDOM 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 Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Kensuke's Kingdom.’ 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 structural and 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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