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.

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    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

  • Hansel and Gretel Story Scenes

    Hansel and Gretel Story Scenes

    Use drama and role-play to illustrate and record each of the main story events and dialogue that feature in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

  • Hansel and Gretel Story Sentences

    Hansel and Gretel Story Sentences

    Select and record different vocabulary words that can be used when compiling sentences to describe what happened in the traditional story of Hansel and Gretel

  • Hansel and Gretel Story Changes

    Hansel and Gretel Story Changes

    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