1. The House on the Corner
Welcome to the BoomWriter lesson plan and slides!
We hope you find these useful for your classroom and feel free to edit and adapt to suit the needs of your class.

2. Lesson Plan Overview
Lesson Steps:
‘Warm up’ the title of the story start
Pre-teaching some of the vocabulary found in the story start
Reading of the writing prompt (BoomWriter StoryStart - ‘The House on the Corner’) - here your students will need to log on to BoomWriter.com or you can read aloud
Comprehension to check students’ understanding of the story
Mind mapping what could be in the chest!
Breaking down the key components needed for a story
Planning their own chapter 2 using a story planner
Understanding the audience they are writing for
The following slides will take your students through a lesson to support with the teaching and writing of a BoomWriter Book. All of these slides can be modified (just make a copy!) to suit the needs of your students and are intended to act as a source of inspiration and guidance to support with this activity.

3. Lesson Plan Overview
Lesson Objectives:
To read and understand the narrative of The House on the Corner
To deconstruct the story start to better understand the characters to help inform planning
To plan a structured chapter 2 that is believable and well written
To write chapters 2 & 3 on BoomWriter for the appropriate audience
The following slides will take your students through a lesson to support with the teaching and writing of a BoomWriter Book. All of these slides can be modified (just make a copy!) to suit the needs of your students and are intended to act as a source of inspiration and guidance to support with this activity.

4. ‘The House on the Corner’
Using the image and the title of the story, make 3 predictions on what the story will be about.
I think the story will be about… 1. 2. 3.

5. Vocabulary Rendezvous Ginormous Unanimous Echo Momentarily Reassurance
Unsettling Bemoaned
Sickle-wielding
Teacher to expose students to vocabulary before reading story start and return to when reading so students learn in multiple contexts.
Teacher to choose whether they want to give students clues or activate any prior knowledge of the words

6. Log on to BoomWriter.com
Reading Time!
Log on to BoomWriter.com
Teacher to access story start on BoomWriter and have the following options:
Teacher to read aloud to the class, stopping where new vocabulary has been learned to reteach within the context of the sentence
Students to read in small groups based on ability
Students to read independently on their devices and return back together as a class for the comprehension questions

7. In your pairs or groups, answer the following questions:
What do Isabella, Alex and Jalen dress up as for Halloween?
How are Mr.Cooper’s and Ms Sanchez’s houses decorated?
What is so “mysterious” about Mr.Murphy’s situation?
What does Isabella notice that causes the “other two to quickly turn around”. Why is this unsettling?
Pick out three words or phrases to describe the house.
What do the three protagonists find in the room?
Teacher to use these questions to check students’ understanding of the writing prompt, which will then have a positive impact on their writing

8. The Chest...
Teacher to ask students the following questions to help stimulate ideas for their planning of chapter 2. Remind students there are no right or wrong answers at this stage - they are exploring all possible options to help carve out an intriguing narrative.
What did the chest look like?
Why might that be important?
What could be inside the chest?
Don’t think about an object. What else could be in the chest?
What will happen when they open the chest?
Which character will become most affected by opening this chest?
What are going to be the ramifications of opening the chest?
How does each character feel about what they’ve just opened?

9. What ingredients are needed for an excellent story?
Characterization
Characters
Setting
Theme and Symbolism
Teacher to help students to pick out what parts of these ingredients are relevant for this story and check students understand what they are and what value of importance to place on the story.
Teacher to zoom in on a few of these ‘ingredients’ and let the students discuss what they will do for each part
Plot
Point of view

10. How to plan your chapter 2
Using the planning diagram (or one your teacher has given you) map out and plan your middle chapter of the story.
Some helpful hints:
Are you going to tell your readers what is in the chest in this chapter or leave it for your end chapter?
How will you end this chapter on a cliffhanger?
Where has Mr. Murphy gone?
How does each character feel about finding the chest?
What will the character’s parents think when they hear their children
went into an abandoned house!
P.S - Don’t forget you will have one more chapter to write after this one!
Teacher to give students planning sheet or one that they are used to using and:
Give independent time
Come together in bigger groups for the chance to ‘magpie’ ideas
Come together as a class and share more ideas

11. Where to take the story next?
Now you are going to write on BoomWriter.
Use your planning sheet to help keep you focused and remember - your classmates will be deciding the best winning chapter so it’s important to consider who the audience is!
Good luck!
Teacher should now get students to log on to BoomWriter.com and start writing their submissions for chapter 2.
Once a student has submitted their entry to you, you are able to request revisions multiple times until you decide to approve it.