This unique resource helps history teachers and non-specialists to deliver Literacy through history lessons at Key Stage 3. The aim of the pack is to provide lesson plans and accompanying activities that fit seamlessly into the delivery of the history curriculum thus promoting skills of historical enquiry as well as enhancing Literacy amongst pupils. Each topic in the pack contains reading, writing, and speaking and listening activities with accompanying advice for the teacher.
1 - Introduction 2 - Medieval Britain 1066-1500 3 - Britain 1500-1750 4
- Britain 1750-1900 5 - A World Study after 1900 6 - Glossary and Index i -
The First World War / i - Working in the Mines / i - The Armada / i - The
Battle of Hastings / i - Lesson plans / ii - Advice on implementing Literacy
through History lessons / ii - The Black Death / ii - The Execution of a King
/ ii - Transportation and Slavery / ii - The London Blitz / iii - Women and
Suffrage / iii - The Great Fire of London / iii - The Murder of Thomas Beckett
Wendy Whitewood is a Literacy Regional Director for the Key Stage 3 Strategy; Martyn Whittock is Head of History at Kingdown School, Wiltshire and is an experienced author.
