War Horse by Michael Morpurgo - teaching resource

War Horse Unit of Work 

War Horse is a unit of work containing a 138-slide PowerPoint, 7 PDF worksheets and 14 lessons. This scheme of work explores the novel chapter by chapter, analysing the book’s plot, characters, themes and language through a range of engaging activities. These teaching resources can be used with Year 5 or Year 6 (Upper KS2) or with a lower ability Year 7 group either as a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme.

Our War Horse unit includes planning (step-by-step 14-lesson unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and accompanying PDF worksheets.

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Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons.

- Comprehension questions

- Chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding

- Research task – World War One

- Making predictions about War Horse using the cover, title, author and blurb

- Exploring and discussing themes

- Character analysis of Joey, Albert, Father and Captain Nicholls

- Understanding the features of a novel – how does Michael Morpurgo use language and narrative structure in War Horse?

- Close analysis of language in key scenes

- Role play and hot seating activities

- Understanding War Horse’s characters through empathetic writing – diary writing

- Developing inference and deduction skills

- Writing a newspaper story about key events in the story

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