This is a 26 Lesson SOW (approx 11-12 weeks), including home learning tasks and a reading assessment, on The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon. Skills covered include comprehension, making inferences, making predictions, making comparisons, analysing language, analysing structure, supporting opinions with evidence, and evaluating a text based on a statement (strong links with GCSE Language skills).

This is a 26 Lesson SOW (approx 11-12 weeks), including a reading assessment, which follows the Classic Starts Abridged version of Oliver Twist, but includes several extracts from the original Dickens text. Skills covered include comprehension, making inferences, making predictions, making comparisons, analysing language, analysing structure, supporting opinions with evidence.

This is a fully resourced 25 lesson SOW (approx 10-12 weeks) - including home learning tasks - for a novel study of The Giver by Lois Lowry. Aimed at Year 7, but could easily work for a Year 6 or Year 8 class as well.

This is a fully resourced 21 lesson SOW (approx 8-10 weeks) - including a reading assessment - for an extract-based study of a series of villains from literature (from Shakespeare, to 19th Century to contemporary texts). Aimed at Year 7, but could easily work for a Year 6 or Year 8 class as well. Skills covered include comprehension, making inferences, making comparisons, analysing language, and writing What?-How?-Why? paragraphs (strong links with GCSE Language skills).

Lesson 1 of a full novel study unit on The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon. Includes home learning task.

Lesson 1 of a full novel study unit on The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Lesson 1 of a full unit study unit on villains from literature through the ages.