Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum.

All history lessons have literacy links. The following lessons on this website have particularly strong links with literacy and the Literacy Hour.

• Urban spaces near you - cross-curricular work history, literacy, art & design, and science
• The Aztec experience persuasion genre: producing a holiday brochure
• Greek myths reference and presentation skills
• Ancient Greece - The Iliad reading and writing poetry
• Archimedes and the Syracusan War helps to develop an understanding of the comic genre
• Celtic Britain the land the Romans conquered Year 3 text level work, and the travel brochure genre
• Caesar lands reading a difficult and challenging text
• Boudicca building up vocabulary, reading and writing poems
• The end of Roman Britain building up vocabulary, reading and writing poems
• Vikings: Egils Saga Year 5: 'novels, stories and poems from a variety of cultures and traditions'. Year 6: 'a range of poetic forms including kennings'
• Saxon settlers reading/writing genres: instructions and chronicle writing
• Sutton Hoo writing reports on artefacts
• Viking travel How did the Vikings travel so far from their homeland? - reading information texts; adjectives; sentence structure
• How the Tudors came to power pictorial note-taking, account-writing
• Queen Elizabeth I reading texts, adjectives
• Tudor Tempest understanding a difficult text (Shakespeare) through story/drama
• Dissolution of the monasteries - Haughmond Abbey using text-breaker to read 16th-century texts; poetry as Egil's Saga above
• Tudor portraits - who am I? using a glossary
• Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London reading Pepys' diary and diary-writing
• The Great Plague of London reading challenging texts (Year 2)
• Brunel and Clifton Suspension Bridge using a picture as text
• Houses - Artefacts from the past writing about artefacts (Year 1)
• Victorian Britain - Henry at boarding school reading difficult and challenging texts
• Slate mining in Victorian times two genres: autobiography and report-writing
• Victorian Britain: investigating two mining disasters reading difficult and challenging texts