Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to write a story with a familiar setting that happens at a special family celebration, a set of cards to select and role-play narrative story ideas for a familiar setting about what could happen in a family and a vocabulary word bank to structure and write a story using a familiar setting about a special family celebration.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to plan and write a narrative story to describe a problem that might occur during a special family celebration.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and presenting some example stories with familiar settings to illustrate things that might be experienced by a family. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.