This Guidance contains all you need to know about the worksheets based on the book ‘Owen and the Soldier’ by Lisa Thompson.

This guidance provides:
Four hook activities to immerse the children in the themes of the book before reading.
A suggested teaching order for the worksheets.
More detail on how each of the worksheets are intended to be used in class.

The teacher guidance is broken down into the following sections for each activity:
Activity Outline: The task overview.
Curriculum Ambition: What every child should achieve, allowing for all children to be ‘writers’ in their own way.
Break it Down: Scaffolding to support learners in achieving the curriculum ambition.
Step it Up: Further challenges to develop writing skills.
Objectives: These are taken from the national curriculum.

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