Jacqueline Wilson
Trilogy DVD
Age 9–14 / Key stage 2, 3 $507.00 NH445501
Two of Jacqueline Wilson’s dramas feature on this on DVD, as well as
the Popular Writers documentary about her work.
What’s So Good About …
Double Act The Illustrated Mum
Jacqueline Wilson?
Curriculum Connections Curriculum Connections
(Documentary)
• Narrative structure • Gives insights into the author’s craft;
• Character, setting, dialogue, plot setting, mood and character; the structuring
Jacqueline Wilson invites us into her book-filled
• Storytelling through dramatisation of text
home to show how she writes her books and
• Study of media texts • Promotes listening, reflection and discussion
develops her ideas. Her books touch on important
• Develops opportunities for writing
and sensitive subjects such as homeless families,
Double Act is a charming, sensitive and often • Explores PSHE themes of growing up, family
children in care, bullying and bereavement, but
hilarious story about ten-year-old twins Ruby relationships and mental illness
always maintain humour and a lightness of touch
and Garnet growing up and finding their own
appropriate to her audience.
identities. International Emmy and BAFTA award winner
2 x 15-minute programmes
The Illustrated Mum is the story of Marigold
1 x 100-minute programme
(played by Michelle Collins) who suffers from
a mental illness, and her two children, forced
to take on all the roles that parents are usually
Free website:
expected to deliver.
www.channel4learning.com/bookbox
4 x 25-minute programmes
Free Interactive Resources
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What are interactive resources?
Each resource is a mini-website that has been developed in consultation with qualified teachers to provide interactive activities to
stimulate and engage students. The sites cover a variety of levels and abilities, supporting a wide range of curriculum subjects.
Listed below you will find links to some suggested sites to support English teaching.
Way With Words Age 11–14 Book Box Age 11–14 Fairground Spells Age 11–14
www.channel4learning.com/waywithwords www.channel4learning.com/bookbox www.channel4learning.com/fairground
Dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah and cartoon Open up the Book Box and explore the life and Experience all the fun of the fair whilst you
character Lex are on hand to guide you through works of more than 40+ of your favourite practise your English skills, including writing,
this fun and engaging literature and language authors, poets and illustrators. Watch and listen spelling and punctuation. Ride the Dodgems
website. Featuring 8 major writers and more as they read and share insight on the favourite or the Ferris Wheels, or maybe play Grammar
than 4 hours of interactive activities covering passages from their own work. Practise your own Grabber, Whack-A-Mole or Hook the Duck to
poetry, prose and drama, users can explore writing too with practical advice from celebrated boost your personal scores and improve your
the relationship between print, sound and the children’s authors in the Writer’s Toolkit, and test literacy skills!
moving image. your language skills and knowledge with the fun
quizzes and games.
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