'Escape From Pompeii' English Scheme of Work

Welcome to our six-week fully resourced English planning based on Christina Balit’s ‘Escape From Pompeii’.  Watch your class engage with the story as they follow a Roman boy’s experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.  Our 30 x 1 hour fully resourced English plans are written for Years 3 and 4 (ages 7-9).   
 
During this unit, the children have three extended writing tasks linked to the story: 
•Narrative and Free Verse Poetry 
•Recount Writing 
•Narrative Writing 
 
In addition, many grammar aspects are explicitly covered: expanded noun phrases; pronouns for clarity, cohesion and to avoid repetition; commas after fronted adverbials, conjunctions, organising a paragraph around a theme and punctuating direct speech. 
 
Our fully resourced English planning has been written with teachers’ time in mind! All the resources you need- words banks, scaffolded activities, example texts , whiteboard slides and posters for your Working Wall- are included, ready for you to print out. Our lessons include bespoke teaching videos so you don’t need to spend hours creating or finding your own quality resources: we have done it all for you! 
 
So download and be ready to jump back in time to AD79!
 
You can buy the book directly from the publisher by following this link. 
 
‘Escape from Pompeii, written and illustrated by Christina Balit, published by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group, copyright © 2005. Reproduced by permission of Quarto Publishing Plc.’
 
Christina Balit offers FREE zoom sessions for schools. Contact her for further details.