KS3 Whole-Class Reading (Years 7–8)
Genre Focus: Fiction (Fantasy Literature)
Core Text: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
This lesson forms Lesson 4 of the Autumn 2 whole-class reading unit for KS3 (Years 7–8), focusing on the study of classic fantasy through C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Building on the previous sessions, the unit continues to strengthen pupils’ reading fluency, comprehension and literary understanding through engagement with a significant work of British children’s literature.
Lesson 4 develops pupils’ understanding of the early chapters of the novel and provides a structured approach to vocabulary development, oracy, and the key comprehension domains—retrieval, inference, and authorial reasoning. Pupils explore carefully selected tier 2 vocabulary from the extract, take part in structured discussion tasks to build spoken language confidence, and respond to comprehension questions that encourage deeper thinking about setting, atmosphere and character relationships.
This lesson aligns closely with the KS3 National Curriculum Reading aims, enabling pupils to:
- Develop an appreciation of literature, engaging with a well-known classic fantasy text.
- Read critically, retrieving key details and inferring deeper meaning about characters, motives and emotions.
- Understand and interpret increasingly challenging vocabulary, using context and discussion to support comprehension.
- Discuss and evaluate the text, contributing thoughtful ideas and evidence-based interpretations in spoken and written activities.
- Build clear, confident and coherent spoken language skills, participating in paired, group and whole-class oracy tasks.
- Analyse how language, structure and authorial decisions create meaning, focusing on Lewis’s use of description, mood and narrative perspective.
Across the Autumn 2 unit, pupils will continue to explore narrative techniques, character development and thematic features of fiction through whole-class reading, enhancing their comprehension, vocabulary knowledge and oracy while deepening their understanding of literary style in fantasy narratives.
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