War Horse Lesson 1: Making Predictions

War Horse is a complete 14 lesson scheme of work with a 138 slide PowerPoint presentation, 14 structured lessons and a 7 page booklet of worksheets. Elementary School English Teaching Resources: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo contains a range of lessons, tasks and activities designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the historical context, plot, characters, language and themes of this wonderful novel. Our War Horse teaching resources include a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities: - A scheme of work overview with 14 four part lessons covering historical context, plot, character, themes and language - Analysis of the characters of Joey, Albert, Father, Captain Nicholls and others - Extension activities - 4 part lessons with starter activity, introduction, development and plenary - Historical context understanding research activity - Developing inference and deduction skills - Empathetic writing - Joey's diary - Hot seating to develop character knowledge and understanding - Analysing Michael Morpurgo's use of language and narrative structure in War Horse - Writing a newspaper story - 14 lesson scheme of work with overview/teacher notes - A 138 slide PowerPoint presentation - 7 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint slideshow