English Fantasy Adventure Game: The Curse of the Tower

An adventure style game designed to cover all key aspects of English. Easily used over 2-3 lessons.

Set in a fantasy land, your team of skilled adventurers must help defeat an evil wizard who has cursed the kingdom. The game is split into chapters. The first 3 of which are contained here.
Chapter 1 looks at identifying, classifying and comparing text types such a informative, persuasive, advise, descriptive and how to etc.
Chapter 2 is a great riddle based game to embed maths easily as well as springboard into how language can be used to confuse but also clarify ideas.
Finally, chapter 3 looks at skimming, scanning, extracting, comprehension and retention of textual information.
The level of difficulty is designed for level 1 and 2 Functional skills but also is useful for GCSE when getting used to reading and understanding non-fiction texts by having it set in a fantasy world.

designed with a few laughs and fun, the aim is for students to learn without realising it. The story is simplistic and the texts fun and creative.
I have had great success with this game as it works in the classroom in groups but also as an individual “catch-up” task. It is in a Powerpoint slideshow format so makes it perfect for online teaching.