Take your class on a magical writing journey with this fully resourced narrative unit based on portal stories. Using The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a core text, pupils explore how authors build suspense and atmosphere before planning, drafting, editing, and publishing their own portal stories.
13 fully planned lessons (60 minutes each), sequenced from reading into writing.
Floor book lessons to encourage rich discussion and whole-class response.
SPaG starters embedded into most lessons (CUPS & ARMS, determiners, prepositions, sentence openers).
Models and scaffolds: Daniel “cupboard to desert” model, sentence opener banks, planning sheets, editing checklists.
Differentiation for KS1-working pupils with TA-led shared writes and scaffolded versions of the Narnia text.
Final outcome: pupils publish a polished portal story that showcases suspense, description, and atmosphere.
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