Fantasy Stories + PDF
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- Alice, the White Rabbit and the Portal
- Alice in Wonderland
- Rabbit Holes and Wardrobes
- Real Stories vs Fantasy Stories
- Using Magic Gateways in Fantasy Stories
- Alice in Wonderland vs Harry Potter
- Stanley, Head Elf Inspector and New Paragraphs
- Improving Creative Writing using Fantasy Stories
- The Key Features of Fantasy Stories
- Stepping through Portals
Description
Unlock the Magic of Fantasy Stories While Teaching Key Learning Skills
Looking to spark imagination in your students while covering literacy fundamentals and developing crucial future-proof skills? Then explore this collection of 10 fantasy-themed English lessons for KS2 built around classics like Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter.
These ready-to-use resources use the wonder of fantasy storytelling to teach core features of the genre from imaginary settings and characters to world-crossing portals. Fun, creativity-firing activities based on fantasy tales allow you to teach curriculum writing objectives in an engaging way.
But the magic doesn’t stop there! The lessons also incrementally build up students’ mastery of 8 key evidence-based learning strategies including critical thinking, collaboration, self-assessment and metacognition. Short excerpts explain the research behind a specific skill and how to leverage it in your teaching.
So you get the best of all worlds – delightful fantasy activities fused with the development of essential skills that studies prove elevate academic performance. Students escape into magical realms while unconsciously honing abilities like analysis, reflection and communication that will serve them for life.
The reviews spotlight how these lessons occupy that coveted teaching space where literacy enjoyment and long-term skill-building collide. Their ability to silently embed important competencies through fantasy has earned them each 5 shining stars.
So for an efficient, stimulating way to cover multiple learning objectives via imagination-grabbing stories, dive into this collection of fantasy lessons. As the reviews reveal, unlocking learning through fantasy is skilful magic!
These 8 skills are the EBL skills developed across these Fantasy Story lessons. Click on each skill to learn more about that skill.
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The Key Features of Fantasy Stories
£3.00 Add to basket £3.00Add to basketThis lesson uses the story Alice in Wonderland to introduce the key features of fantasy stories, such as real and imaginary settings, real and imaginary characters, good vs evil and the use of portals. The activities in this lesson include answering higher and lower order questions, learning how to design a poster and then designing a poster showing the key features of fantasy stories.
There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on collaboration with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Real Stories vs Fantasy Stories
£3.00 Add to basket £3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include looking at real vs fantasy stories, real vs imaginary settings, real vs imaginary characters and the conflict between good and evil. Activities include answering higher and lower order questions.
There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on thinking skills with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Stanley, Head Elf Inspector and New Paragraphs
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include exploring the five reasons for starting a new paragraph and looking at the three rules for writing dialogue. Examples of starting a new paragraph are presented using a story extract about Stanley, Head Elf Inspector. Activities also include a close procedure for the five reasons for starting a new paragraph and also for the three rules for writing dialogue.
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Rabbit Holes and Wardrobes
£3.00 Add to basket £3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include looking at the use of portals and the passing of time in fantasy stories and considering the types of stories in which portals are needed. Activities in this lesson also include answering higher order questions on portals and the passing of time.
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