This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life.

The class can select and role-play a similar narrative story that might occur between another pair of animal characters using the main features of fables.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the sequence of narrative events in a traditional fable as preparation for writing a similar story and a set of cards to explore and role-play some other narrative story ideas based on a fable read by the class.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a story based on a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson about life.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson. 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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