Reading Lists: Classics

Inventing Characters Read! Journal Word Notebook

Choosing Titles The Fab Four Golden Rules Generating Ideas Stealing Ideas From an Idea to a Plan Planning from a Picture Stories Based on a Passage Stories Based on a Sentence An Example of Good Planning

Describing a Location Longer descriptions Describing a character's appearance Dialogue Distinctive Voices Show, Don't Tell Characterisation: Shown Feelings More Characterisation Techniques Playing with Sentences Playscripts Action Suspense

What is story structure? 1 Exciting opening line 2 Set the scene 3 Talking and describing character 4 Characterisation 5 Suspense 6 Action 7 Cliffhanger Standing Out: How can you stand out from the crowd? Clever Clogs: Non-Linear Clever-clogs: Two perspectives Clever-clogs: Narrative voice Practice 11+ exam titles

Checking your story in an exam Redrafting = improving your story What if I run out of time in an exam? The Grumpy Examiner's Pet Hates

Year 2 into 3 Lemony Snicket After Harry Potter Must-Read Authors Spy Novels Horror Stories Classics Animal Stories Adventure Historical Fiction Myths & Legends Fantasy Family Stories & Comedies

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
You’ll study the 1960s in Year Five, including the music of John Lennon – just one of the hundreds of writers, poets and musicians whose minds have been altered irrevocably by this classic novel. The only story ever written that the Grumpy Examiner will forgive for ending with ‘and it was all a dream!’

Boy by Roald Dahl
I’m sure you’ve already read most of Dahl’s classics – The Twits, James and the Giant Peach – but don’t miss out on his fabulous autobiography, Boy.
A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe by Francis Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aitken
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

Last updated on August 12, 2007