A workbook aimed to promote students’ understanding of the novel ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. There are related activities to every chapter - exploring characterisation, vocabulary, and plot.
SoW: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone By JK Rowling (KS3; 17 Lessons)
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This SoW is designed in detail and is both differentiated and engaging, and allows you to move pupils through content efficiently. This SoW contains retrieval, dual coding, differentiation and exam questions throughout.
Made to the highest standard and constructed using current research, both dual coding and retrieval practices are at the heart of this unit. A colour scheme also is also present to ease both your delivery and students’ comprehension.
SOW: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone By JK Rowling (KS3; 17 Lessons)
Chapter 1 The Boy Who Lived
Chapter 2 The Vanishing Glass
Chapter 3 The Letters from No One
Chapter 4 The Keeper of the Keys
Chapter 5 Diagon Alley
Chapter 6 The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters
Chapter 7 The Sorting Hat
Chapter 9 The Midnight Duel
Chapter 10 Hallowe’en
Chapter 11 Quidditch
Chapter 12 The Mirror of Erised
Chapter 13 Nicholas Flamel
Chapter 14 Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
Chapter 15 The Forbidden Forest
Chapter 16 Through the Trap Door
Chapter 17 The Man with Two Faces
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This is a lesson using flame tests that I put together for Harry Potter day. Students need to work out who has poisoned Dumbledore. I used this with Y10 who had not done flame tests before.
The PPT presentation focuses on different types of inference questions that feature on the SATs and presents students with strategies for how to answer these types of questions.
Students then use an extract from Chapter 5 of Harry Potter (approx. 700 words) to answer inference questions. There are different types of inference questions, including fact/opinion questions, ‘tick it’ questions, etc.
Five different tasks to practise vocabulary and structures describing people and pets. They can be used for the development of reading, writing and speaking. Maybe a nice treat before Christmas?
A model character description for Upper KS2 and above, using a range of figurative language, grammatical structures and punctuation.
It includes a task to identify each feature in the text, and a short extension question for more able writers to consider.
Practise writing relative clauses by writing descriptive sentences about the three main Harry Potter characters.
What’s included:
PowerPoint
Roll on the Wall Word Banks
Relative Clause Task Sheets for LA (Red) and MA (Orange) groups
This lesson has been created to revise relative clauses before embarking on Harry Potter themed narrative writing.
This was aimed at Year 6 writers as part of a larger unit of work but can be used as a lesson in isolation. Please see my other resources for Harry Potter themed narrative and journalistic writing for Year 6 children.
Harry Potter Themed Narrative - Lesson 2
This scheme of work introduces students to the orchestra, its 4 families, layout and the role of the conductor. It is done through the theme of Harry Potter. Students will be 'sorted' into a house (ability based) and will work towards a whole class orchestra style performance of Hedwig's Theme.
This unit is aimed at Year 7 students but could be adapted for older year groups.
Includes a 7-week lesson plan and a pupil workbooklet which includes written and listening activities along with the sheet music for their performance.
A fun and simple powerpoint in which the pupils make simple choices in order to rescue Harry and his friends. You play a character in the book and attempt to find where Harry and his friends are imprisoned by reading a text and clicking on a choice. Hope your pupil’s enjoy!
Example newspaper report based on the popular fantasy novel Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling.
This exemplar newspaper article is perfect to use as a WAGOLL when studying Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone. The example text reports on the robbery of Gringotts Bank.
The model newspaper report comes with a feature find worksheet for children to fill in with answer sheet.
After identifying the features, pupils complete the quotation punctuation activities.
Then pupils use the templates provided to plan and write their own newspaper report based on the example text or other events that take place in the novel.
This resource comes with the following documents:
• Example newspaper report WAGOLL
• Feature find worksheet
• Feature find answers
• Quotation punctuation activity with answers
• Newspaper report planning template
• Newspaper report writing templates x2
The genre-specific, language, grammar and punctuation features in the text include:
• Headline in the present tense
• Alliteration in the headline
• Byline and date
• Lead: introductory paragraph containing 4 Ws
• Quotes, with inverted commas
• Photograph with caption
• Passive voice
• Past tense
• Third person
• Relative clauses
• Alliteration
• Fronted adverbials followed by commas
• Synonyms to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Present perfect tense
• Present perfect continuous
• Hyphens
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for singular possession
• Apostrophes for plural possession
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’Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ KS3 Drama Scheme of Work
This is a 7 week Drama scheme of work aimed at Year 7 students although could easily be adapted for any KS3 year group.
The scheme covers the use of characterisation and relationships, with some moments of reflection on student’s own feelings and emotions.
This resources includes;
Scheme of work.
Workbook (including reading for each lesson)
PowerPoints for each of the 7 lessons.
Resources
I don’t include the assessment extracts in this as there is quite a sizeable amount of the script included. You can choose any part of the script that you think would work for this or alternatively, I have also allowed students to select their favourite extract from those studied in lessons to use as their final assessment - this worked really well.
A model diary entry from Harry’s perspective about the events in Chapter 3 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, along with a task for identifying the features and an extension.
This diary entry is stopped short (we pretended he was writing it on the floor of the hut at the end of the chapter) to represent the moment Hagrid knocks on the door. I used it to teach cohesion between diary entries, as the children then wrote the next entry, emulating the style but about the events of Chapter 4. However, if you wanted to use it just as a model, it would only need a few more words to complete it.
This is an essential resource for any teacher who is looking for an easy-to-use unit which covers the first Harry Potter novel in detail. There are a total of 130 slides broken down into 23 chapter-by-chapter lessons. The unit culminates in an essay (‘How does J.K. Rowling create a sense of excitement and wonder in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone?’). There are also additional attachments which can be used in the classroom or given as homework. This is a tried and tested resource which has garnered much positive feedback from pupils.
17 LESSONS (ONE HOUR LESSON PER CHAPTER OF BOOK)
*resources for lessons included
Engaging lessons based on ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by J K Rowling.
Lessons lead to a final assessment point where the children write their own descriptive story.
Each lesson begins with key vocabulary for each chapter
Originally created for a SEN Year 7 literacy class. Would work for Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 literacy lessons.
Planning is high-quality from Head of Literacy at a secondary school and previous Year 6 teacher.
The planning follows structure of practising skills in the following areas:
Improving Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Writing techniques
Applying skills
POWERPOINT OF 107 SLIDES INCLUDED
Practise punctuation for speech and develop character personality through Harry Potter. Includes role play and short differentiated writing task.
This PowerPoint should be used as a follow on task after teaching/revising the skills of punctuating speech. It focuses on the scene of Dudley’s birthday from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and emphasises the different ways the character’s speak to, and behave towards each other.
The success criteria has been differentiated three ways to allow for the different abilities of children.
This was aimed at Year 6 writers as part of a larger unit of work but can be used as a lesson in isolation. Please see my other resources for Harry Potter themed narrative and journalistic writing for Year 6 children.
Harry Potter Themed Narrative - Lesson 1
A persuasive writing lesson for KS3 on Harry Potter. Students either pick a House from the ‘Sorting Hat’ or are assigned a House and must persuade Professor Dumbledore that this is where they belong based on characteristics they look at earlier in the lesson. Includes differentiated tasks, writing frames, starters, checklists and video clip links. A light hearted persuasive task, probably best for those who have already been introduced to techniques.
An extract from Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone with three sets of differentiated questions attached.
This is a sample extract. For all seven documents visit https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/harry-potter-reading-comprehensions-combined-11177467 where you will find extracts from all seven Harry Potter books with three sets of differentiated questions attached with each extract. These activities will help children work on a range of comprehension skills using a story many are already aware of and engaged with. Questions range from simple retrieval to commenting on why particular language has been used.
***The extracts used are copyright of the author J.K Rowling.