FAKE by Ele Fountain is a fantastic novel that can be used to explore the impact of technology on pupils’ lives as well as developing reading skills.
In FAKE, the author explores social issues in a thrilling adventure which blurs the boundaries between the real and digital worlds. Jess uses her coding skills to help her sister, but enters classified areas where she discovers some explosive truths as she tries to help her family.
This resource pack provides activities suitable for pupils in Years 5-7 based on FAKE by Ele Fountain, writer of the award-winning novel Boy 87.
The resource pack will guide teachers when reading this book to the class, providing questions to prompt class discussions about characters and events as the narrative unfolds.
A range of activities delve deeper into the story, including the use of role on the wall, and discuss the themes explored in the book. With opportunities to link to the computing curriculum and explore relationships and online safety in PSHE, this exciting book will keep readers hooked as well as offering the opportunity to explore and discuss themes relevant to young people.
Curriculum areas covered
READING
- Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction
- Increase familiarity with a wide range of books, including modern fiction
- Ask questions to improve understanding
- Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
- Summarise the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying the key details that support the main idea
- Predict what might happen from details stated and implied
- Participate in discussions about books, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
WRITING
- Identify the audience and purpose for writing
COMPUTING
- Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly
- Understand computer networks including the Internet
RSE (2020)
- Know how information and data is shared and used online
- Know how important friendships are in making us feel happy and secure, and how people choose and make friends
- Learn the characteristics of friendships, including mutual respect, truthfulness, trustworthiness, loyalty, kindness, generosity, trust, sharing interests and experiences and support with problems and difficulties
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