Dissolution of the Monasteries: Haughmond Abbey
Lesson Plan
By Elaine Almond, published 2nd December 2010
Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
The objectives of this lesson were for the children to:
- Understand that spoken language and word usage may change over a period of time;
- Understand that to be able to use an historical document as a source of evidence it is necessary to have a knowledge of specific vocabulary;
- Become familiar with using a textbreaker to access difficult and challenging texts;
- Be able to work in teams to pool knowledge and to produce a report for whole-class presentation.
Literacy context
I felt able to apply lessons I had learned from the video clips of John Fines' teaching and the use of Reading documents strategies to enable children to access difficult and demanding texts.
I had been exploring the idea of offering 'real' situations within the literacy hour to raise both verbal and written skills. Work on identifying types of questions to interrogate a text and raise understanding beyond the literal had also been a focus of reading strategy teaching.
Teaching methods |
Attached files:
- Dissolution of Haughmond Abbey: Teachers Notes
36.3 KB PDF document - Dissolution of Haughmond Abbey: Resources
102.7 KB PDF document - Dissolution of Haughmond Abbey: Pupils Work
439.9 KB PDF document