Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to change the sequence of events in a narrative story to match a familiar setting, a set of cards to suggest and and role-play narrative story ideas to show changes to indicate how the characters solved a problem, a vocabulary word bank to structure and write a story using a familiar setting and a template to storyboard what could happen on a family picnic using illustrations and sentences.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use special vocabulary words to write a narrative story describing events in a familiar setting.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.