Lesson Five – Story Plays

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and role-play alternative versions of the traditional story of Chicken Licken to show changes to the sequence and development of narrative elements.

The class can produce masks for different animals that might feature in another version of the story to use when role-playing the narrative sequence.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and role-play alternative versions of the traditional story of Chicken Licken to show changes to the sequence and development of narrative elements

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to select and record an alternative version of one of the narrative events in a traditional story and a template to decorate a character mask for use in a story role-play showing changes to the narrative sequence in a traditional story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to role-play alternative versions of a traditional story to show changes to the narrative elements.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and change the sequence of events that happen in a traditional story and match a range of different words that rhyme using the same final phoneme. 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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