Planning and Activities

Read powerful WWI fiction: War Horse and War Game. Revise clauses and use formal and informal register, including subjunctive form. Write stories inspired by reading.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
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If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
Texts
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Optional texts
War Games by Michael Foreman
Websites
Horses in World War 1
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
Texts
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Presentations
Grammar PowerPoint: Clauses and Conjunctions
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
Texts
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Presentations
Grammar PowerPoint: Formal and Informal Register
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
Texts
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Websites
War Horse National Theatre production trailer
War Horse (2011) film trailer (Certified for all audiences – Film has 12a certificate)
War Horse (2011) clip – cavalry charging the Germans (No combat scenes)
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
Texts
War Game by Michael Foreman
Optional text
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Presentations
Grammar PowerPoint: Subjunctive Form
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
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Texts
(Either or both)
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
War Games by Michael Foreman
Website
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