This exciting set of English lessons for your Year 5 class is based on Neil Gaiman's wonderful Viking-themed adventure book, 'Odd and the Frost Giants'.

During these five Odd and the Frost Giant Lesson Plans, you will read and discuss the events of the book together as a class. Children will explore and compare characters, practise their skills of inference and deduction, make and justify predictions, and take part in a debate!

Each ready-to-teach lesson within this Odd and the Frost Giants planning pack comes with a detailed plan, an engaging set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

This scheme of work is also part of our Vikings Topic Bundle. Perfect if you are teaching 'The Vikings' as a cross-curricular topic.

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Exploring the character of Odd

In this first 'Odd and the Frost Giants' lesson plan, your class will read Chapter 1 of the book together, and discuss what has happened so far.

In their independent activities they will focus on the main character of Odd, using their inference and deduction skills to explore his thoughts, behaviours and actions further. In the alternative activity they are challenged to put themselves into Odd's shoes, and write a short diary entry explaining what has happened to him in the last two years, and inferring how he feels about this.

This first Odd and the Frost Giants lesson is ready-to-teach, and includes a detailed plan, engaging slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.

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Comparing and Contrasting Characters

Children will read Chapters 2 and 3 of 'Odd and the Frost Giants' together, discussing both the unfolding events and the new characters of the fox, the bear and the eagle.

In their activities, children will focus on analysing and describing the personality traits and behaviours of the three animals. Or, if the FSD? activity is chosen, they are challenged to create an imagined role-play of the interaction between the three animals just before Odd meets them.

A comprehensive plan, engaging slideshow, and differentiated, printable resources are all included with this Odd and the Frost Giants lesson planning pack.

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Making and Justifying Predictions

After recapping on what has happened in the book so far, children will continue to read and discuss Chapters 4 and 5 of 'Odd and the Frost Giants' as a class.

Based on what has happened so far, children are challenged to make predictions about what will happen next, then put them in order of 'least likely' to 'most likely', justifying their choices based on their knowledge of events and characters in the book. In the alternative activity, children read the provided myth of Odin and Mimir's Well, using this to help them predict what might happen next and why.

As well as a detailed plan with differentiated activity ideas, this Odd and the Frost Giants lesson planning pack also includes an engaging slideshow and printable resources.

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Inferring Thoughts and Feelings

Once they have recapped on their predictions from the previous lesson, children will read and discuss Chapter 6 of 'Odd and the Frost Giants' together.

Children are challenged to use extracts from the text to infer and explain the different emotions that the Frost Giant experiences throughout his conversation with Odd. In the alternate activity, they will take on the persona of the Frost Giant, then write and perform a monologue revealing what he thinks and feels about the situation he finds himself in.

This ready-to-teach Odd and the Frost Giants planning pack includes an easy-to-follow plan, an engaging set of slides for the teaching input, plus differentiated, printable resources.

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Taking part in a Debate

In this final lesson, children will read and discuss the events in Chapters 7 and 8 of Neil Gaiman's 'Odd and the Frost Giants'.

In their independent activiites, they will focus on the events that led to the Frost Giant wanting revenge for his brother. Children read the Norse myth of how the wall around Asgard was built, and then prepare for, and take part in, a debate on the statement: The Norse Gods treated the Frost Giant who built their wall unfairly.

Included in this Odd and the Frost Giants planning pack is a lesson plan, set of slides for the teaching input, activity ideas and printable resources.

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