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The Silver Sword

KS2 English Teaching Resources - The Silver Sword is a complete 17 lesson Year 5 / Year 6 teaching unit with a 161 slide editable PowerPoint presentation, 30 worksheets and a lesson by lesson overview.

The resource contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop knowledge and understanding of the historical context, plot, characters, language and themes of Ian Serraillier’s The Silver Sword. Resources include:

- A unit overview with 17 four part lessons covering historical context, plot, character, themes and language

- Analysis of the characters of Joseph, Ruth, Edek and Bronia Balicki and Jan

- Varied extension activities

- A range of starter and plenary activities

- Historical context research activity

- Discussion of key themes: war, family, friendship, hope, etc

- Developing inference and deduction - key reading skills

- Empathetic writing – Ruth’s diary

- Spoken English task - Hotseating to develop character knowledge and understanding

- Analysing Ian Serraillier’s use of language, symbolism and structure in The Silver Sword

- Writing a book review for The Silver Sword

- 17 lesson scheme of work

- A 161 slide PowerPoint presentation (see preview images)

- 30 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint slideshow

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