Science Fiction Series + PDF
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- Science Fiction that is Out of this World
- Ground Control to Major Tom
- Home Sweet Dome
- All Characters Welcome
- Robots Got Talent
- First, Launch an Astronaut into Space
- New Paragraphs and New Worlds
- The Intergalactic Guide to Paragraphs
- Science Fiction is Alien to me
- Writing a Cosmic Paragraph
- A Galaxy of Grammar
- 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – Describe a Robot
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Engage Students while Building Key Skills through Science Fiction
Looking for imaginative new ways to teach English fundamentals while cultivating essential future-proof skills? Then rocket through this stellar collection of 12 science fiction-themed lessons for KS2 classes.
These out-of-this-world resources use the wonder of sci-fi storytelling to teach core literacy concepts from speech punctuation to crafting descriptive paragraphs. Fun, creativity-sparking activities based around intergalactic adventures allow you to cover writing curriculum aims enjoyably.
But the learning launch doesn’t end in orbit! The lessons also incrementally develop students’ mastery of 8 key evidence-based learning strategies including critical thinking, collaboration, self-assessment and metacognition. Bite-sized excerpts explain the research behind a specific skill and how to leverage it in your teaching.
So you get the best of all worlds – delightfully themed literacy activities fused with the nurturing of essential competencies that studies confirm elevate academic performance. Students blast off into space sagas while incrementally honing abilities like analysis, teamwork and reflection that will propel them for life.
The reviewers accentuate how these stellar lessons occupy that coveted teaching spot where literacy joy and long-term skill-building meet. Their ability to silently implant important capabilities through sci-fi fun has earned them each 5 glimmering stars.
So for a cosmic, effective way to cover multiple learning goals via imagination-seizing stories, launch into this collection of otherworldly resources. As the reviews make clear, when it comes to enriching teaching, the sky’s no limit with these science fiction lessons!
These 8 skills are the EBL skills developed in these Science Fiction lessons. Click on each skill to learn more about that skill.
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5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – Describe a Robot
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include learning how to describe characters (especially robots) in science fiction stories using the four conventional ways; lots of grammar stuff such as prepositional and adjectival phrases and writing a paragraph to describe a robot.
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First, Launch an Astronaut into Space
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£3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include learning about common plots for science fiction stories, completing a story mountain for a science fiction story, reading short extracts from science fiction stories, completing a task on each one and creating possible plots for science fiction 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 peer assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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New Paragraphs and New Worlds
£3.00 Add to basket £3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include reminders about the three main features of stories and the features of science fiction stories in particular. Activities also include looking at the five reasons for starting a new paragraph and adding new paragraphs to extracts from science fiction stories.
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A Galaxy of Grammar
£3.00 Add to basket £3.00Add to basketActivities in this lesson include learning about and practising using nouns, synonyms, pronouns, adjectives, adjectival phrases and intensifiers in science fiction stories.
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