Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special characters that could feature in different stories and a worksheet to play a spelling game to identify and match a range of words beginning with the letters c and k.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the special characters that could feature in different traditional stories and identify their importance to the narrative.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to role-play different traditional stories using drama and speaking and listening skills and match initial phonemes in cvc words to letters of the alphabet. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.