Christmas text detectives

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Matt
Christmas texts: playing detective
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Prose: Form and structure
Resource type
Starter/Plenary
Student activity

An engaging teaching resource for a stand-alone Christmas lesson looking at genre, audience and purpose.

The PowerPoint includes a selection of seven festive texts such as poems, paintings, carols and maps for students to investigate their purpose, their audience and genre. Each text has a series of questions to help students to consider key features. 

It could also be used for Christmassy starters in lesson in December.

 

Example questions from the PowerPoint resource: 

• Who do you think is speaking?

• What do you think the journey is?

• How does the speaker feel about the journey?

• How do the camels feel about the journey?

Give evidence from the text to support your ideas.

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