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| A Terribly Strange Bed:
Some questions for discussion on 'A Terribly Strange Bed'. |
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| First 3 paragraphs of
The Terribly Strange Bed: First 3 paragraphs of the story and some questions |
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| Intro: Lesson plan and
activity on the opening of 'The Red Room'. |
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| The Man with the Yellow
Face 1: An unfinished summary for students to complete. 'The Man
with the Yellow Face' by Anthony Horowitz is available
here. |
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| Character types: List of
8 character types for sorting and an extract from 'The Man with
the Yellow Face' by Anthony Horowitz for students to consider.
(Also available in KS3 Original Writing). |
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| The Red Room plot: Lesson plan and activity for the ending of 'The Red Room'. |
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| The Red Room true false statements: True/False task on the
opening of 'The Red Room'. |
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| Mysterious wordsearch: Wordsearch of words often found in mystery stories. |
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| Mysterious wordsearch answers: Teacher's copy of above |
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| Mystery story elements: Prompts to help students think of ideas for
their own mystery story. |
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| Questions on Helen's story: Questions to check understanding of
Helen's story in 'The Speckled Band'. |
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| Engineers Thumb1: This set of questions on the opening of the story work
well after using the Teachit pre-reading clues. |
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| Engineers Thumb2: How
does Conan-Doyle develop the tension of this story? A scaffolded activity to help students catagorise the various ways. |
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| Speckled Band 1: A set
of true/false questions which can be displayed on an IWB as a
starter. A second page of 5 prediction questions that must be
done before reading the ending (four sets on a page). |
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| Sherlock Holmes info: Some background information to Sherlock Holmes and the
stories and a series of tasks. |
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| Sherlock Holmes lines: Opening lines four Sherlock Holmes stories,
questions and a challenge to students to write their own introductory
paragraph in the same style. Works well with the clue sheets from Teachit. |
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| Writing your own: A prompt sheet to help students start their own mystery
story |