Lessons with strong literacy links
Lessons
Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum.
All history lessons have literacy links. The following lessons on this website have particularly strong links with literacy and the Literacy Hour.
Urban spaces near you - cross-curricular work history, literacy, art & design, and science
The Aztec experience persuasion genre: producing a holiday brochure
Greek myths reference and presentation skills
Ancient Greece - The Iliad reading and writing poetry
Archimedes and the Syracusan War helps to develop an understanding of the comic genre
Celtic Britain the land the Romans conquered Year 3 text level work, and the travel brochure genre
Caesar lands reading a difficult and challenging text
Boudicca building up vocabulary, reading and writing poems
The end of Roman Britain building up vocabulary, reading and writing poems
Vikings: Egils Saga Year 5: 'novels, stories and poems from a variety of cultures and traditions'. Year 6: 'a range of poetic forms including kennings'
Saxon settlers reading/writing genres: instructions and chronicle writing
Sutton Hoo writing reports on artefacts
Viking travel How did the Vikings travel so far from their homeland? - reading information texts; adjectives; sentence structure
How the Tudors came to power pictorial note-taking, account-writing
Queen Elizabeth I reading texts, adjectives
Tudor Tempest understanding a difficult text (Shakespeare) through story/drama
Dissolution of the monasteries - Haughmond Abbey using text-breaker to read 16th-century texts; poetry as Egil's Saga above
Tudor portraits - who am I? using a glossary
Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London reading Pepys' diary and diary-writing
The Great Plague of London reading challenging texts (Year 2)
Brunel and Clifton Suspension Bridge using a picture as text
Houses - Artefacts from the past writing about artefacts (Year 1)
Victorian Britain - Henry at boarding school reading difficult and challenging texts
Slate mining in Victorian times two genres: autobiography and report-writing
Victorian Britain: investigating two mining disasters reading difficult and challenging texts