Stone Soup

This English reading teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to read and respond to a traditional story to identify and record the sequence of narrative events experienced by the characters.
The class can suggest and record how the outcome of the story might change when selecting alternative events for the characters to experience in the narrative sequence.
Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, activity worksheets and an interactive presentation to explore how to read and respond to a traditional story to identify and record the sequence of narrative events experienced by the characters
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the narrative sequence of events and descriptive vocabulary in a traditional story, a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a traditional story and a template for support ability levels to complete sentences showing the content of a traditional story using the correct vocabulary words.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to read and respond to a traditional story to identify and record the sequence of narrative events.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and format of a range of stories with traditional narrative sequences. 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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