Emberwick Teacher-Led Bundle, Years 7 to 9: Narrative, News and Close Reading

Three no-prep Teacher-Led units for Years 7 to 9 (Grades 7 to 9), all set in Emberwick, the same painted harbour town: narrative writing, news and opinion writing, and a close reading mystery. 37 ready-to-teach lessons plus a bonus lesson. Each unit is one file on your projector, with no logins and no student devices, and it works offline. The bundle costs less than buying the three units one by one.

WHAT'S IN THE BUNDLE

1. The Lantern Archive (narrative writing): 12 narrative writing lessons plus a bonus lesson on point of view, a printed Keeper's Journal, a Lesson Guide and Relief Lesson Cards. Three Lamps in every room give support, core and stretch, and the unit ends with the Unfinished Tale, written over four lessons.

2. The Emberwick Gazette (news and opinion writing): 12 news and opinion writing lessons with media literacy, a Reporter's Notebook and a Lesson Guide. Reporters weigh sources, spot spin and bias, interview and quote, plan a news report with the inverted pyramid, write a fair editorial and revise for a special edition.

3. The Tallow Street Case (close reading): 13 close reading and analytical writing lessons, an Investigator's Casebook, an Evidence Pack, a Lesson Guide and The Open File, an end-of-unit assessment with an analytical essay. The class reopens a 1926 shipwreck case one piece of evidence at a time, beside two real poems.

HOW EVERY UNIT RUNS

• You run each lesson from the computer on your projector or board. Students write on paper, in their own printed book.
• Every lesson has a short voiced story, one teaching point, a model you build in front of the class, their own writing and an exit ticket.
• Your notes are on every step: press ? for what to say and the answers.
• One HTML file per unit. Open it in Chrome or Edge. Art, voices and music are all inside the file, and it stores nothing about your students.

ONE TOWN, THREE UNITS

All three are set in the same painted town, so the class steps back into a world it knows. Teach them in any order: each unit is complete on its own.

HOW IT WAS MADE

The voices and the music were made with AI voice and music tools, and the paintings with an AI image tool. We chose and edited all of it. Two of the voices are our own.

LICENCE

For use by the purchasing teacher with their own classes. You may put these files on a password-protected or school-internal site (such as your school's learning platform) for your own classes. Please don't post them on a public website or share them outside your classes.

Made by two teachers, one primary and one secondary, who have taught in classrooms around the world.