Home > Key Stage One > English > Reading > Comprehension
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

Stone Soup
Explore how to read and respond to a traditional story to identify and record the sequence of narrative events experienced by the characters
-
Garden Numbers
Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers
-
Summer Stories
Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer
-
Fraction Numbers
Investigate how to use concrete equipment, diagrams and calculations to identify and record the matching fractions of different numbers
-
Family Holiday Lists
Explore how to compile sentences punctuated using commas to list some of the special things that families can use, complete and experience on a holiday