High quality guided reading planning to be taught alongside the novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. Perfect for a year 5/6 class. Amazing value with 9 weeks worth of 45minute lessons (3 per week). The planning uses the VIPER scheme, giving children plenty of opportunity to answer Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation and Retrieval. Lessons are available as a SMART notebook and as a Powerpoint. PDF of the lessons are also included which are great for online learning. *SATS style questions included Planning is high-quality and engaging. Please leave a review

This is a WAGOLL / model text of a setting description of the garage in the novel Skellig by David Almond, with a focus on figurative language. It contains subordinate clauses, a range of punctuation, high-level conjunctions and other Year 5 / Upper KS2 writing objectives.

Full 6 week scheme of work for the novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. Included is: unit overview, detailed weekly short term plans, PowerPoint for each lesson along with all resources. Lessons cover reading, writing and spoken language skills. Lessons are aimed at Year 6/7 but can be easily adapted to suit other year groups. Planned and ready to teach!

This engaging and informative lesson helps students to identify and analyse the descriptive language techniques used by David Almond to describe the derelict garage in Skellig, before creating their own descriptive language techniques to describe an old and run-down setting. The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through: - Defining and exemplifying the key descriptive techniques through a group activity; - Reading and comprehending an extract from Skellig, in which Michael's old and run-down garage is described; - Identifying the descriptive techniques within the extract and analysing their effectiveness; - Learning how to create effective and imaginative adjectives, verbs, similes, metaphors, and personification; - Creating their own device-filled descriptions of an old and decrepit place; - Peer assessing each other's learning attempts; Included is: - Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive; - Word Bank template (pdf and word); - Selected extract - Skellig - Michael's Garage; - 'Create Your Own Personification' worksheet (pdf and word); - Cards for the card-sorting activity; - Comprehensive lesson plan. There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a year 7 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 4 and 9 with minimal adaptations. All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

This knowledge organiser is based on the novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond and supports children writing their own version of a ‘newspaper article’ about the creature being found by the children. It is an A4 ‘Publisher’ document and in PDF, which includes Y5/6 spellings, challenging vocabulary, objectives specifically for Y6, grammar prompts, and planning guidance (along with sentence starters for each suggested paragraph).

SoW: Skellig by David Almond (KS3) - 16 Lessons! FREE Lesson 1 - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12960930 FREE Animal Farm SoW: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12942163 Leave a review for a FREE single resource 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: Skellig by David Almond (KS3) Lesson 1 - Understanding Characters Lesson 2 - Predictions and senses Lesson 3 - Senses Lesson 4 - The Man in the Garage Lesson 5 - Who would you be Lesson 6 and 7 - William Blake Lesson 8 - Formal Letters Lesson 9 - Developing Annotation Lesson 11 - Assessment Lesson 12 - Letter of apology Lesson 10 - Archaeopteryx Lesson 11 - Assessment Lesson 12 - Letter of apology Lesson 13 - Developing description Lesson 14 - Imagery Lesson 15 - The Final Pages If you leave a review of any of our resources, you can claim any FREE single resource from our ever growing library. Simply message the above email, which is monitored daily. teachercentralltd@gmail.com I hope you find this SoW useful. If you have, I have created a series of resources. You can check them out here. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TeacherCentral

A workbook aimed at Lower Ability students in their study of Skellig by David Almond. Chapter by chapter questions, character activities and more.

Comprehension questions for years 5/6 for the whole of the book Skellig. Useful when teaching this as a whole class text in English or as a guided reading book. Questions are written in the year 6 SATs style and focus mainly on inference and vocabulary.

This display is based upon the novel by David Almond. It is used to challenge children's understanding of the obvious, yet also subtle themes within the book. The resource is 16 pages and includes lettering, pictures, a topic page, extracts and related questions to challenge thinking. It also includes links to William Blake. It should form an interactive display with children responding to questions and discussion points. The extracts are all copyright of the author, David Almond.

Scheme of work PP, worksheets and activities for Skellig. To be used with either KS2 or LA KS3.

Skellig Scheme of work

A variety of tasks relating to chapters 20-25. Includes some language analysis; quote finding and inference.

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The children are to read through the passage and draw what they have visualised in the box below. I also got my children to highlight important descriptions before cutting the two sections apart and sticking them into their books. There is also a differentiated aspect that only looks at the key descriptions for the lower ability.

Bundle of lessons that cover the whole book. Lesson plans and activities are all included.

A compilation of worksheets (some of which are taken from various sources on the internet, fellow TES users, workbooks etc.) and a guided PowerPoint with clear learning intentions. Two options for assessment at the end. I use this for middle/low ability Y9 classes

A full SOW to be taught to Year 7 or 8 based on Skellig by David Almond. PowerPoint includes full resources, differentiated activities and lesson by lesson instructions for the teacher in the notes section. Activities include writing from a character perspective, diarty entries, creative writing such as designing your own creatures and also activities based on language analysis. Scheme also includes contextual references to William Blake’s poems that the novel is losely based on. Final assessment piece is for students to write a book review. The scheme has been used previously as a class reader.

Focus on the use of dialogue in the novel. Includes an extract, comprehension tasks and writing tasks.

This knowledge organiser is based upon the novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. It contains the key information, vocabulary and discussion points related to the novel, which supports the children in developing a greater understanding of the story.