This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to role-play and suggest matching dialogue that might be spoken by different characters in a fantasy story about meeting a dragon inside a forest location.

The class can practise writing a simple sentence to select and record what a specific character could and couldn’t say to another character in a narrative story with a fantasy setting.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to role-play and suggest matching dialogue that might be spoken by different characters in a fantasy story about meeting a dragon inside a forest location

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to suggest what different characters might say to each other in a fantasy story, speech bubble template to record what a character might say in a story with a fantasy setting and a set of cards to select characters to use in a role-play.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore what different characters might have said to a dragon in a fantasy story to match their specific characteristics and role in the story.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings. 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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