Teachers could pick a person in the photograph and ask a child to be that person for a moment and describe what they see and how they feel. The photograph is obviously taken some time after the accident, so there can be some good class discussion about the events leading up to it. This can be read to the class using appropriate expression. Unfamiliar words can be looked up in dictionaries. Questions to test comprehension can follow.
Discussion can focus on words to indicate panic, excitement and danger.
Charles Dickens makes use of direct speech in this letter. Encourage pupils to look at the punctuation involved in writing direct speech. The suggested sentence and word-level work builds on the whole group discussion. Parts of the work can be approached as a whole class or alternatively set as part of the class group activity period. Both of the group activities focus on writing at length and organizing that writing in the correct manner.