Princess and the Pea

This English reading teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of the traditional story about what happened to a princess character.
The class can suggest and record how the same story might develop and conclude with a different main character responding to the sequence of events in the narrative.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, activity worksheets and an interactive presentation to read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of the traditional story about what happened to a princess character
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore the sequence of events and characters in a traditional story and a differentiated set of worksheets to answer comprehension questions and complete sentences about the structure and content of a traditional story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the format and content of a traditional story by identifying the sequence of events and their impact on the narrative.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and format of a range of stories with traditional narrative sequences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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