Traditional Tales

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and format of a range of stories with traditional narrative sequences. The class can select and suggest the narrative sequence of events might continue and develop in each story.

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of the traditional story about the Billy Goats Gruff

Hansel and Gretel

Read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of a traditional story about what happened to the characters of Hansel and Gretel

Ugly Duckling

Read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of a traditional story about an ugly duckling character

Frog Prince

Read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of the traditional story about the frog prince

Princess and the Pea

Read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of the traditional story about what happened to a princess character

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Read and answer a range of comprehension questions to explore the structure and content of the traditional story about the character of Goldilocks

  • Wild Things

    Wild Things

    Explore narrative settings and predict events in a story set in a fantasy world, investigate the spellings of different words with tch endings and practise joining pairs of sentences using the conjunction and

  • Wild Things Story

    Wild Things Story

    Produce a narrative storyboard with sentences and illustrations for a similar type of story that takes place in an alternative location with matching characters

  • Story Places Lists

    Story Places Lists

    Select and record vocabulary word lists to match alternative settings that could have been used in a similar story that takes place in a fantasy location

  • Sentence Joins

    Sentence Joins

    Select and model how to write example sentences about characters from a story with a fantasy setting using the conjunction and to link pairs of sentence clauses