Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the sequence of narrative events in the traditional story of the Enormous Turnip and differentiated templates to select and record the actions and thoughts of additional characters in a narrative story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the sequence of events and characters in a traditional story as preparation for writing a similar story using conflict and resolution.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record how to write a story illustrating conflict and resolution about making an enormous pancake based on the structure and content of a traditional story. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.