Simplified knowledge organizer and plot over view

Various images associated with pirates. Useful as a discussion starter or writing stimulus.

Anne Bonny fact file

Worksheets allowing pupils to make predictions or suggestions about the book based on the cover differentiated to 3 different levels.

Worksheet to support students making predictions about the story based on sources.

A bundle of resources I used with as student with Autism who was finding creative wring challenging. Concrete experiences (receiving letters, doing a mock interview, photographs) and a clear structure helped him to construct a successful narrative with descriptions, and a clear structure.

Unit of work following the abridged version of Treasure Island edited by Pauline Francis in the ‘Fast Track Classics’ collection. I think this could be easily adapted/extended to follow the original text.

Reward tokens or tokens to conduct a pirate treasure hunt.

Information about tanks of the future with illustration that I used for a reading/research activity where my student summarised each section into one or two sentences. you could also make comprehension questions to use with this.

Reading comprehension and writing tasks based around Ninja Equipment.

Analysing the description of The Captain from the opening of Treasure Island.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks. There is then a guided self and peer assessment activities followed by redrafting and final write up. I used this over a sequence of 3 lessons but mainstream learners would progress more quickly. Following on from my free resource The Captain.

Reading comprehension activity based on the history of Ninja. Includes short text and questions.

Writing activity based on reading the blurb. One with questions to answer the other asking students to write what the blurb tells them and to explain why they think this.

Picture of the front cover with boxes in which to write your analysis. Differentiated to four different levels from blank to prompts and sentence starters.

A worksheet to support designing a pirate character to use in story writing.

Story board and writing frame to support story writing on a pirate theme.

Introduction to adjectives with pirate related pictures to describe.