Lesson Three – Story Changes

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and role-play a range of narrative predictions to illustrate the sequence of events that happen in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel.
The class can suggest and record how different characters might use some of the objects that feature in a scene from a traditional story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and role-play a range of narrative predictions to illustrate the sequence of events that happen in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel
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 and sets of cards to role-play how story objects might affect the development of a story and match sets of cvc words that begin with the same initial sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to role-play narrative predictions to illustrate the sequence of events 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.
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Word Halves
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