A simple narrative based on film stills that is chunked into three sections in which setting, action or dialogue dominates; for KS2 students to read, analyse and use as a model for their own writing.

Included:

Gladiator: a 6 page narrative: In Rome’s Colosseum, a gladiator fights a masked opponent and a tiger. The empress must decide whether to spare the defeated combatant’s life.

Text Summary: key vocabulary, structure, featured language, punctuation and grammar

Activity Suggestions: recommended tasks for context, pre-reading, reading and writing

Context of Colosseum

Model plan using stills

Stills to plan from

Blank planning form

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