Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the sequence and content of narrative events in a traditional story, a set of cards to describe and role-play as different story characters from traditional stories and a worksheet to identify and match a range of cvc words that begin with different initial sounds.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore special vocabulary words that can be used to describe a range of different characters in a traditional story.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the different characters, settings and plot events used to tell a traditional story and identify letters that match initial sounds of words. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.