The Bone Sparrow Teaching Pack – Complete Year 7 Novel Unit

Teach The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon with this engaging and accessible teaching pack designed specifically for Year 7 English. This complete novel unit supports students in exploring themes of hope, resilience, belonging, friendship, and human rights through structured, age-appropriate lessons and activities.

The unit helps students build empathy and critical thinking skills while developing confidence in comprehension, analysis, and paragraph writing.
Through scaffolded learning and interactive discussion, students explore narrative voice, symbolism, and character development in a way that is clear and supportive for junior learners.

What’s Included:
A complete 10 week teaching sequence with ready-to-use Year 7 lessons
Contextual support exploring refugees, displacement, and human rights
Character and big idea analysis activities designed for junior students
Language and narrative feature analysis (imagery, symbolism, perspective, structure)
Analytical paragraph models and writing support
Creative and reflective tasks to build engagement and empathy
Deep dive additional lessons

You can:
Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) and it will automatically convert to slides.
Use in Google Slides: Upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides.
Use digitally or print: Upload the PDF to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print it for handouts.
You could also use Canva to upload the PDF and convert and save as a PowerPoint.