Traditional Fables

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson. The class can suggest and illustrate how a fable might change with some other characters and story settings.

The Hare and the Tortoise
Select and change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story to illustrate how the narrative events might alter

Town and Country Mouse
Dramatise and retell a traditional story with animal characters that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson related to the story narrative

The Dove and the Ant
Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life
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Money Coins
Practise identifying, naming and comparing groups of notes and coins that can be used when shopping for different products
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Word Play Poems
Investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes
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Food Numbers
Practise using pictograms to present and organise data and information about the counted numbers of different types of food
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Dance Journeys
Select, refine and perform sequences of dance steps to reflect some of the movements that might be made by vehicles on a range of different journeys