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KS3 · Year 8 - Development · Term 1 - Autumn · Week 4
Pages: Ch. 4-6, pp. 33-58
First tale begins - story-within-story; ambiguous endings.
Lesson 1
What students do
Echo-read italicised sections; discuss font shift.
Task
Mark a timeline of where the tale "switches" expected to unexpected.
Success criteria
Identifies the turning point of the tale.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss story-within-story structure.
Task
Identify two structural devices (italics, embedded narrative) + one effect each.
Success criteria
Devices named with correct terminology; effects use "so that the reader…".
Lesson 3
What students do
Live model WHAT/HOW/WHY on structure (not just language).
Task
Copy model; highlight zoom from whole-text structure to one specific word.
Success criteria
Identifies the zoom from structure to detail.
Lesson 4
What students do
Scaffolded structural paragraph.
Task
120 words with one structural point and one language point.
Success criteria
One structural device named; one embedded quote; "This suggests… because…" once.
Lesson 5
What students do
Independent 130-word paragraph, no scaffold.
Task
How does Ness use the first tale to make readers question what is true?
Success criteria
Structure AND language addressed; embedded quote; one inference with "because".
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