Treasure Island - teaching resource

Treasure Island – Classic Fiction English Resource

Introduce your pupils to classic literature with this comprehensive English unit based on Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. This engaging resource offers a rich blend of reading comprehension, writing opportunities, drama, and media comparison.

Using both the novel and a film adaptation, pupils examine how texts are interpreted differently, while exploring themes of adventure, loyalty, and morality. Activities range from role play and hot-seating to creative writing and biographical tasks.

The resource includes:

• Personal response and character empathy tasks

• Warm-up sentence starters and vocabulary extension

• Group, paired and independent activities

• Figurative language exploration for comic and dramatic effect

• Drama-based strategies including conscience alley and role on the wall

• Creative writing: letters, biographies, stories, and more

• Cross-curricular links to history (pirates and exploration), geography (Caribbean), and music (narrative lyrics)

With an 84-slide PowerPoint and 33 printable worksheets, this flexible unit provides everything needed for an enriching exploration of this literary classic.

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