Kensuke's Kingdom

Key Stage : 3 or Curriculum for Excellence: First or Second Level

A Curriculum for Excellence

First Level English Resources (Year P6-S1)

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (Powerpoint and worksheets)
 
This unit will successfully work at Curriculum for Excellence: First or Second Level.

The range of activities in this unit of work are intended to suggest opportunities for reading and writing using the novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo which can be used both in English and across the curriculum. There are weblinks to extend and enrich children’s learning and teachers will identify many opportunities arising from these activities such as art and craft work (origami, the art of Hokusai); links to RE (Zen and Shinto religions); the study of Japan; astronomy; habitats; World War ll; mountains and many more. It can be used as a transition unit of work and it can easily be adapted to be used to fit in with other requirements.
English Teaching Resources: Kensuke's Kingdom is a unit of work where all activities covered are structured chronologically. Teachers can use the resource as it is or select from and adapt the activities to meet the needs of the children they teach. There are plenty of reading and writing opportunities with suggested assessment focuses identified.

English Teaching Resources: Kensuke’s Kingdom (Narrative Unit) is a complete unit of work which includes suggestions for activities, sentence warm ups, a 51 slide PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets.  Lessons cover the related core learning objectives (see preview below).

1.    Talk for writing – reading as a writer. How does this text make you feel and how has the writer achieved this?
2.    Exploring character – why characters act as they do.
3.    Identifying the main points in a story.
4.    Sentence warm up activities
5.    Text structure and planning
6.    Diary writing
7.    Drama and role play
8.    Vocabulary extension
9.    Poetry
10.    Non chronological report reading and writing
11.    Recount reading and writing
12.    Discussion writing
13.    Considering viewpoints in a story
14.    Sentence warm up activities

Cross curricular links:
Art and craft work (origami, the art of Hokusai); links to RE (Zen and Shinto religions); the study of Japan; astronomy; habitats; World War ll; mountains.

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