Capture your students' excitement and imagination with a little creative magic! Bringing the enchanting world of Harry Potter to life in your classroom allows children to tap into their creative powers as they leave the mundane behind.
Here are some engaging Harry Potter teaching resources featuring magical classroom activities. They're organised into four categories to help you easily find and use what you need to support classroom teaching and learning.
Harry Potter role play and discussion resources
When introducing a new topic or taking a break from reading, role play or discussion activities are excellent choices. These exercises give your students the opportunity to step into different characters' shoes, encouraging them to see things from new perspectives.
Here are three fun Harry Potter role play and discussion teaching resources:
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1. Scenario cards for Harry Potter. A set of cards outlining various scenarios from the Harry Potter series. These are perfect for freeze-frame activities or as prompts for narrative writing, with scenarios including entering Diagon Alley for the first time and receiving the Nimbus 2000. |
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2. Freeze framing Harry Potter. Designed for years 5 and 6, this resource provides prompts for children to practice drama techniques while creating freeze frames for each of the seven Harry Potter books. |
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3. Harry Potter discussion questions. A set of 11 discussion cards based on the Harry Potter series, aimed at improving comprehension skills and encouraging children to think critically about characters, plots, and themes. Ideal for a KS2 guided reading session. |
Harry Potter comprehension resources
Teachit offers a wide range of comprehension resources, providing breadth and depth for children to practice retrieval and analysis skills. Here are three of the most popular comprehension resources:
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1. Harry hits Hogwarts. A comprehension activity focusing on Harry's experiences at Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, featuring questions about Harry's lessons and school timetable.
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2. Quidditch questions. Engage your KS2 students with the world of Quidditch through comprehension questions and a follow-up writing activity to create a leaflet.
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3. The Mirror of Erised. Two sets of differentiated comprehension questions based on Chapter 12 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, including extended writing tasks and character profiles.
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Harry Potter writing resources
As you may have discovered, excerpts from the Harry Potter series serve as excellent springboards for children's imaginative writing. Consider these writing activities to add a touch of magic to your classroom:
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1. Wizard me! Suitable for upper KS1 and KS2, this resource provides prompts for children to create their own wizard profile. It works well as a character development task leading into a longer writing activity. |
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2. Harry Potter sentence structure. Three quick sentence work activities reviewing the features of a sentence. Children examine short, unpunctuated extracts to determine if they are full sentences, add appropriate punctuation, and unscramble sentences into the correct order. |
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3. The Pensieve - story starter. This resource uses an opener for a flashback story, drawing inspiration from the Pensieve in the Harry Potter series as a device to trigger a memory for students to write about. |
Harry Potter quiz resources
A quiz that both entertains and educates is a winner in any classroom! Here are some engaging Harry Potter quiz resources to get your students excited about learning:
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1. Harry's half time quiz. Based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this quiz offers two sets of questions at different difficulty levels. Answers are included, along with 'wizard ratings' to show children what kind of wizard they are. |
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2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone quick quiz. A fun, bingo-style quick quiz based on the first ten chapters of the book, complete with answer cards and a teacher's cheat sheet. |
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3. Harry Potter's trapdoor quest. A quiz focusing on the final chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It's an excellent choice for comprehension-based homework, a lesson starter, or a plenary activity. |
We hope this collection of Potter-inspired resources empowers your students to become more creative writers, engaged readers and insightful literary analysts!
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