English (Fiction) Resources to try out as they are, or tweak, or use as templates for your own activities!

Butterfly Lion

An information gap activity with four texts and illustrations on the disparate topics included in this book. Designed as a prequel to studying this transition text. Observation grid (based on the work of the Oracy Project) for assessing speaking and listening is included.

Great Expectations

Two activities to help identify the characters and their relationships withing the story.

Food and Babies

An introduction to satire. An information gap prequel to the study of Swift's Modest Proposal with information on Ireland, colonies, foundlings and methods of protest.

Oliver Twist

A character card game with a difference. There are no cards for Oliver only for the other characters. A set of Olivers have to earwig the discussion to find out about themselves.

Shawl Ghost

Two activities to help identify the characters and their relationships. A who said it quiz and a true and false activity. The story is included in the activity.

Superpeople

Matching predicaments to the superheroes who will (or perhaps might not be able) to solve. An introduction to ideas around heroism.

The Holiday

Sorting dream and disaster holiday events to follow up the reading of George Layton's short story. Scaffolding writing about holidays.

Thomas Hardy short stories

A range of activities with excellent drawings which can be used to establish the plot and examine the characters of The Withered Arm and Tony Kytes. Also activities to clarify archaic language and dialect. Character cards, plot summaries, picture matching etc

Holes

A character card game and connect four to support this transition text.

Bill's New Frock and the Awful Day Game

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Mrs Collin's Complaint

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Females in Books

Three out of nine activites. More to be posted later.

Frankenstein: Hotseating with a Connect FourGame

Half the class in role as characters from the story. Half the class questioning the characters and trying to be the first to complete their question line on the connect four grid..

Interactive Bookmark

A bookmark to travel with you through your book and as well as helping you mark your page, it asks useful questions about theme, setting, characters etc and suggests ways to record your responses to text quickly in a way that will be useful later when you might be asked to respond to the book.. Will save a lot of scrabbling through pages.

Iron Man Role Play

Individuals play parts of the Iron Man and have to find the other parts to reassemble the entire body. Plus matching activity on language of story.