GoldFiction: The Treasure Island Narrative

This resource has been produced in collaboration with the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE). The Teaching Sequence for Writing is still the recommended approach to the teaching of reading and writing.

The Treasure Island narrative sets the scene of pirates and life at the time, before presenting extracts from this exciting tale of a dead man’s map, mutinous pirates, skullduggery and buried children. for the children to ‘read as a reader’. Children will then analyse how the author has created responses, ‘reading as a writer’. There are a series of exercises, which will lead to children having a go at their own creating writing.

This resource can be easily adapted to the needs of your class, and can cover several lessons. It comprises of: a PDF file, which indexes the accompanying PowerPoint and provides accompanying worksheets; the PowerPoint presentation (the main body of the resource); and a Word document, featuring a simple worksheet and printable copies of the abridged Treasure Island chapters.

The original illustrations are supplied by kind permission of Stella Perrett, Radical Cartoons. The links within the resources were correct at the time of publication (November 2022).