Kensuke's Kingdom - teaching resource

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo – Year 6/7 English Teaching Resource

(139-slide editable PowerPoint with 30 pages of worksheets)

Bring Kensuke’s Kingdom to life in your classroom with this comprehensive Year 6/7 English resource. This unit of work is packed with engaging reading and writing activities, grammar tasks, and cross-curricular links to enrich pupils’ understanding of Michael Morpurgo’s powerful novel.

This resource includes:

• A full scheme of work structured chronologically across the novel

• 139-slide editable PowerPoint presentation

• 30 pages of printable worksheets

• Embedded grammar warm-ups and writing starters

Key learning opportunities:

• Talk for Writing: reading as a writer – exploring author’s technique and emotional impact

• Character analysis and exploring motives

• Story structure imitation and planning

• Grammar and sentence-level activities (nouns, pronouns, tense, determiners, punctuation)

• Writing tasks: diary entries, letters, recounts, discussions, non-chronological reports

• Drama, role play, and poetry

• Vocabulary extension activities

• Considering different viewpoints within the story

Cross-curricular links:
Art (Hokusai, origami), RE (Zen, Shinto), Geography (Japan, mountains, habitats), History (WW2), Astronomy, and more.

Ideal as a Year 6 transition unit or standalone English scheme, this flexible and enriching resource encourages deep engagement with narrative, character, and themes.

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