Complete scheme of work for Coraline, Neil Gaiman.
Contains 32 resources:
Lesson 1-Predictions, blurb and chapter 1
Lesson 2-Foreboding
Lesson 3-Chapters 2 and 3
Lesson 4-Chapter 4 S&L
Lesson 5-Chapters 5 and 6
Lesson 6-Chapters 6 and 7
Lesson 7-Chapters 8 and 9
Lesson 8-Chapters 11,12 and 13
Lesson 9-Subversion
Assessment- lower and higher ability.
Includes differentiated resources for both a higher and lower ability class.
This resource is a full scheme of work for the novel ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman. Originally written for a low ability year 8 group, it is suitable for years 7 or 8, low to mid ability. Updated Jan 2022.
There is a mammoth 93 slide PPT plus all resources included in this bundle. The PPT works through a range of activities designed to develop both reading and writing skills via cross-over creative tasks. Suggested reading chunked to go with lessons.
Topics and tasks as follows:
Pre-reading tasks (book name and cover)
expectations / predictions
characterisation
Effect of language (using the PEEZL acronym)
Example of writing about effect
Inference
Settings
Creative writing - create an ‘other’ you
Improving creative writing
Parallel world theme
formal letter writing
planning and scaffolded writing and peer assessment opportunities
comparing the two worlds
tracking tone changes
creating horror
pre-annotated extract
writing as a character (diary entry)
Use of simile / creating own similes
theme of survival
tracking Coraline’s journey
more in-depth theme investigation
writer’s messages
forming critical opinions
twisted fairy tales (investigation and creating own)
Heroines and stereotypes
quote finding
effective endings
foreshadowing
5 years later - writing a new chapter
Updated Jan 2022
Scheme of work exploring the novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
Focusing on:
*** Language analysis
Word class identification
Structural analysis
Sentence types
Creative writing
Analytical writing (PEE and PETER paragraphs)
Characterisation
Evaluation writer’s choices**
A series of lessons working up to a reading assessment
There are eighteen lessons covering the twelve chapters of Neil Gaiman’s horror story for children, “Coraline”. Lessons explore Gaiman’s original use of language as you progress through the book, in particular his description of colours, smell and his use of similes. The scheme of work culminates in students writing their own horror story about “The Other School” that they attend and the “other teachers” who they have to battle to defend their school from. Some lesson folders contain more than one choice of activity. The key theme of bravery is also explored also.
A brief pamphlet aimed to supplement the enthusiasm of the teacher in the primary classroom. This Bookmark concentrates on the author, text, characters and use of language
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)
The worksheet consists of an information text. Based on this text, there are various exercises such as matching tasks, multiple-choice questions, open questions and true-false questions.
You receive the material and solutions in PDF format for easy printing and in docx format for individual customization.
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
About the Novel: When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there’s another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
About the Resource: The pack has been designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s Reading Standards for Year 6.
A link to an editable digital copy of the file on Google Slides for completing without printing is available with download.
A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for CORALINE by Neil Gaiman.
This BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context.
The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story.
The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
Applying and Synthesising
Research - relevant to the story and children’s interests
Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
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Ideal to use as part of any AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1-based SOW/ Year 11 revision lesson. Fully-resourced lesson. Especially stretching and challenging for students aiming for grades 7-9!
What’s included?
LO: To critically engage with an extract from ‘Coraline’ by applying the mark scheme and exploring the source (AO1, AO2, AO3).
‘Do Now’ interleaving literature recall task (Macbeth, ACC, AIC, P&C)
Mini creative writing (Q5) progress check tasks with a focus on strutural techniques + self-assessment. Slow-writing and scaffolded structures included.
Q1-style comprehension task
Q4-style evaluation task with scaffolded support to form complete answers
Extract from Chapter 3 of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ (1990)
Free PDF of ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman: http://mrdavieswebsite.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/5/6/24564916/coraline.pdf
**18 lessons for ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman. Page numbers are for the free PDF book in the link above.
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Clear, well designed PPT
All resources required are provided
Key Terminology entry slides
Lesson Objectives
Key Words for each lesson
Assessment Objective focused lessons
Starter, main and plenary
Examples given where necessary
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ALL PRESENTATIONS HAVE BEEN CREATED ON GOOGLE SLIDES. ALL RESOURCES HAVE BEEN CREATED ON GOOGLE DOCS.
This unit is intended to be a transition scheme for Year 7 students. The main focus is writing and the four week unit focuses on refreshing, reiterating and consolidating the skills that students left primary school with at the end of KS2 (as well as building up new skills). By the end of the unit you will know what writing level your students are working at and how this relates to their KS2 SAT grades. The unit is designed to help with target setting. There is also the opportunity to do an informal speaking and listening assessment that will serve as an opportunity for students to get to know each other. The writing assessment can be given a level. There are some lessons that focus on reading skills; these lessons serve as an introduction to inference and deduction.
This is a 75 page novel study for Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Each chapter of the book has a 2 page chapter study of comprehension questions. Answers are included for the chapter study worksheets. There are also 35 additional activities to reinforce key concepts.
This resource aims to help students expand their understanding of the text and develop a wide range of reading comprehension and literacy skills.
The worksheets have been carefully created to be suitable for a range of student abilities and cover a variety of reading comprehension and higher order thinking skills. Additional activities include creative and reflective tasks to further help students demonstrate their understanding and connect with the text. All activities are designed to help students engage with the text in a meaningful and enjoyable way.
Our literature units can be used for whole class, small group, collaborative or individual tasks. Teachers can easily pick and choose which activities they would like to use.
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This is a 4 week unit of work that is based around Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Wolves in the Walls’ book. This is a challenging text, as it covers the issue of nightmares but it really engages the boys in my class. Neil Gaiman has a fantastic story telling ability (he also wrote Coraline). The end piece is designed to be a descriptive nightmare where the child experienced it learns what to do in their life after they wake up. This unit of work is targeted best at Year 4 - 6 pupils. I have included all the resources you need to start teaching this tomorrow. Below are all the learning objectives and resources included for the unit:
Stage 1- Stimulate and generate- Learning outcomes
• To write a letter to a character in a book
• To create a fantasy world
• To select and retrieve key information
• To discuss philosophical ideas
• To find the meaning of words
Stage 2 - Capture, Sift and Sort- Learning outcomes
• To find the key features descriptive writing
• To write sentences using conjunctions
• To find near synonyms
• To write produce internally coherent paragraphs
• To write sentences with embedded clauses
• To write about all 5 senses
• To use a fronted adverbial to explain how, when or where something took place
• To write expanded noun phrases
Stage 3 - Create refine evaluate- Learning outcomes
• To plan my writing by discussing and recording ideas
• To plan and organise my ideas to effectively support my writing
• To revise, edit evaluate and improve my writing
• To revise, edit evaluate and improve my writing
• To create illustrations for a piece of writing
• To read my story to another pupil
Resources Include:
• 1 - Postcard from Lucy
• 3 - Animals in Dreams
• 3 - Animals in Dreams Reading Comprehension
• 4 - Philosophical Questions
• 5 – Reading
• 5 – Wolves Word Mat
• 6 - Key Features of Descriptive Writing
• 8 – Shades of meaning
• 10 - Embedded clauses
• 11 - 5 Senses
• 11 - Fantasy Pictures
• 12 - Fronted Adverbials WT
• 13 - Monk & Monkey Photos
• 14 – Storyboard
• 16 - Success Criteria
• WAGOLL
• PowerPoint LOs
This unit of work uses the 3 stage planning process of:
Stimulate and generate = This usually starts with a hook to interest the class where the class realise who they are going to write for so they have a clear purpose and audience. Acticitives can include reading excellent model texts, drama or researching more about the author or the content of the book.
Capture, sift and sort = This is the part of the unit where pupils look at key features, practise skills they will need in order to complete the final piece or new learning for objectives they have not learnt yet.
Create, refine, evaluate = This is where you bring all you have learnt together and plan the final piece before you write it and then edit it to improve the piece. This can include self, peer or teacher led reviewing.
A knowledge organiser based on ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman to use for revision on the novel. It can also be used to support children in developing a greater understanding of the themes in the book, by identifying key information, quotes, vocabulary and discussion points.
A series of 6 homework tasks to accompany the reading of Neil Gaiman’s novel ‘Coraline’. This is aimed towards KS3. This booklet includes a range of activities for students to complete at home.
This lesson prepares students to analyse quotations comparing Coraine's two mothers from the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The analysis is done through the analogy of a house, as you look at the outside and explain the ideas generally, and then when you look in more detail inside the house you gain a further understanding of the language used by Neil Gaiman. There is a booklet resource that fits with the lesson to help students follow this ideas, as well as top tips.