**20+ fully resourced lessons based on Kensuke’s Kingdom - perfect for any Year 6 class. ** Includes a range of extended writing opportunities, exemplar texts (WAGOLLs), reading comprehension questions, differentiated activities, success criteria checklists, collaborative learning tasks and more.

Whole class guided reading for Kensuke’s Kingdom. This is 6 weeks worth of planning. Each lesson contains 1 PowerPoint and 1 worksheet. Planning uses reading vipers and each week focuses on 1 reading viper. Week 1 - Prediction Week 2 - Vocab Week 3 - Inference Week 4 - Summarise Week 5 - Prediction Week 6 - Vocab Each lesson’s structure is as follows: A think about it question Teacher reads Speed retrieval Independent reading Main task (linked to reading viper) Please leave a review if you found this useful. Thank you.

Full 6 week scheme of work for the novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. Included is: unit overview, detailed weekly short term plans, PowerPoint for each lesson along with all resources. Lessons cover reading, writing and spoken language skills. Lessons are aimed at Year 5/6 but can be easily adapted to suit other year groups. Planned and ready to teach!

Resources linked to the book Kensuke’s Kingdom Including: Changing between tenses Modal verbs (L.A) Changing between 1st and 3rd person Freezeframe scenarios - discussion/ summary points

Powerpoint of a wide variety of tasks that can be completed when studying Kenuskes Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

With the opening extract included, this comprehension resource includes questions and answers for this popular text by Michael Morpurgo. Suitable for children working towards/at the expected standard in Y5/6, the questions are closely linked to the National Curriculum and therefore adequately develop their comprehension skills. It can be used as a guided reading text, an assessment piece or as an introduction to the text in general. For the differentiated version of this resource, please go to the Reading Resources for Teachers’ TES Shop.

Kensuke’s Kingdom guided reading 14 sessions- all sessions come with powerpoint and activity planned using VIPERS Week 1- 4 sessions (vocab, infer, explain, predict) Week 2- 5 sessions (vocab, retrieve, comprehension, sequence & summarise) Week 3- 5 sessions (vocab, inference, prediction)

Read and Respond activities based on the 6 comprehension strategies for the novel "Kensuke's Kingdom".

Creative writing resource to use as a prompt

A scheme of work for Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’. It follows the Middle Years Programme framework but should work across multiple curriculums for Key Stage 3. This particular unit was created for a Year 7 class. It includes slides and a Point Evidence Explain Assessment.

A set of Comprehension questions based on the ninth chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom. Chapter 9 (The night of the turtles ). There are three sets of differentiated questions including a set of questions which have sentences with key words/information missing for children to complete using a word bank for lower ability/SEN children.

A set of Comprehension questions based on the tenth chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom. Chapter 10 (Killer men come). There are three sets of differentiated questions including a set of questions which have sentences with key words/information missing for children to complete using a word bank for lower ability/SEN children.

This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make precise interpretations of the descriptive language used by Michael Morpurgo in his description of Michael’s trip around the world in ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom.’ They learn to define, identify, and analyse the effectiveness of a range of descriptive devices, before applying these to form their own vivid and imaginative descriptions of places. The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through: Understanding the scale of the journey that Michael’s family undertakes, through a fun cross-curricular task; Defining each of the different types of descriptive devices, through completing an interactive group activity; Reading extracts from the text in which Michael describes the different places along his trip, and identifying the language techniques used to paint an image of place in the minds of the readers; Analysing the effectiveness of each of Morpurgo’s descriptive devices; Creating their own description of an ‘around the world trip’, utilising appropriate and effective descriptive devices to describe at least two different stops; Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts. Included is: Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive; Cards for the Card Sorting Activity;’ World Map for the opening activity; Writing to Describe Helpsheet Comprehensive Lesson Plan All resources are provided in Word (for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure formatting remains fixed between different computers). There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 4 and 5 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 8 with some adaptations. The word documents are within the zip file. All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.

A set of Comprehension questions based on the first chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom. Chapter 1 (Peggy Sue). There are three sets of differentiated questions including a set of questions which have sentences with key words/information missing for children to complete using a word bank for lower ability/SEN children.

These questions can be used orally or in a written format to review this lovely novel by Michael Morpurgo.

A set of Comprehension questions based on the second chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom. Chapter 2 (Water, water everywhere). There are three sets of differentiated questions including a set of questions which have sentences with key words/information missing for children to complete using a word bank for lower ability/SEN children.

A booklet to use with Kensukes kingdom

I’m now retired from teaching after decades in the classroom. I’d like to help the younger generation. One aspect I don’t miss in Sundays. Trying to fill in planning grids that were rarely used or looked at. What a nightmare! So I’ve put together my teaching plans etc from the various schools I was in. The zip contains loads. I’ve put a sample in the ordinary download to give you a flavour It’s mainly to do with Kensuke’s Kingdom. But there’s othet stuff too included for free. There’s stuff on Dolphin Boy, Butterfly boy etc. Feel free to adapt for your planning grid. Sample planning : Recount one event from holiday. Note features and language patterns to list. Chronological, time connectives, 1st person, past tense, personal views. Write a recount for the Easter holiday. Individual revision task. Focus on organization and links using temporal connective phrases. Personal views. Introduce ch 1 for Kensuke’s Kingdom. Record initial response with prediction. Select examples to show Michael’s feelings. List reasons for and against yourself and family setting off on a round the world sail, Justify relating to evidence selected from the text. Red: format provided Gr/Or: list reasons from two places Bl/Y: form contrasting sentences… begin with, “even though…” Read ch 2. In pairs. How does Mom feel about the trip and Dad’s ideas? What is the alternative? 1. Why has Michael decided now to tell his story? 2. Who are the members of Michael’s family? 3. What do the family do together on the weekends? Can you describe how it makes them feel? 4. Why do the family stop sailing? 5. What is the atmosphere like in the house? 6. What happened to Michael’s best friend? 7. What happens to Michael’s father and why? 8. What do you think happens next? 9. Describe the father when they meet up again. What sort of mood is he in? Read chapter three. List examples of each character’s feelings. How do Mom and Dad’s feelings compare. When Michael and his family first set sail, how many miles a day do they want to do? How many miles a day do they actually do? What game do Michael’s parents play? What do they eat? What creatures do they see off the coast of Africa? In November they went to Brazil. Where did they stop? What did Michael do in Brazil? What did they do on Christmas Day? Describe, in your own words, the incident with Stella Artois. Record the incident with Stella as a personal diary entry. Refer to events in the chapter. HA: personal style to include worries for the future. MA: Organise into paragraphs with links LA: use ed-ing-ly openers. You get 8.7 mb of stuff so that’s good value imo. In it are lesson plans, powerpoints, questions etc. Enjoy your Sundays!