This resource contains two sets of PowerPoints and Teacher Notes Set 1:
 
PowerPoint and teacher notes for 25 lessons focused firstly on Once by Morris Gleitzman and then on non-fiction extracts focusing on various aspects of WW2.
 
Answers to all questions included so children can self-correct/mark.
 
Books needed: Once by Morris Gleitzman, The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren
 
Lesson content:
 
Once Chapters 1-8
The Blitz
Evacuation and Evacuees
Rationing
The Kindertransport
Polish Ghettos
Concentration
Danish Resistance and Rescue of Jews
Women of the Second World War
WRNS
WAAF
ATS
WLN and WVS
SOE
Women's Work and Rights post war
 
Set 2: A series of 6 lessons focusing on extracts from a range of children's books based on WW2. The sequence of lessons focuses on modeling how to give an impression of a character using evidence from the text and therefore gives children the opportunity to learn how to complete 3 mark questions on the KS2 reading test.
 
For the text excerpts go to: https://www.aidansevers.com/product-page/text-excerpts-for-uks2-world-war-2-reading-x31-lessons