This PowerPoint offers five creative, ready-to-use cover lessons based on short films and animations, perfect for when a teacher is absent or needs an emergency plan. Each lesson includes clear objectives, discussion prompts, and imaginative writing tasks with success criteria. Films featured:

• The Smeds & The Smoos
• Snack Attack
• Tabby McTat
• The Present
• The Bread

Students will develop narrative and descriptive writing skills through tasks such as diary entries, letters, alternate endings, storyboards, and thematic analysis. Activities explore themes of friendship, misunderstanding, cultural identity, and symbolism, and many lessons can be extended over two or three sessions. Suitable for Years 5–8, these lessons are self-contained, easy to deliver, and highly engaging.