This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to plan and write an alternative cliff hanger ending to a chapter from a narrative story by a significant author to illustrate how characters might respond to events.

The class can explain why authors might use different narrative techniques to structure the sequence of events in their stories to highlight different thoughts and moods.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write an alternative cliff hanger ending to a chapter from a narrative story by a significant author to illustrate how characters might respond to events

Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated templates to structure an alternative cliff hanger ending to a chapter from a narrative story using paragraphs and sentences for core and extension ability levels and a storyboard outline for support ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write an alternative cliff hanger ending to a chapter from a narrative story by a significant author.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases. 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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