The Hare and the Tortoise
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story to illustrate how the narrative events might alter.
The class can record and sequence a similar narrative story that might occur between another pair of animal characters using the main features of fables to teach the reader a lesson.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story to illustrate how the narrative events might alter
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the sequence of events in a traditional fable with animal characters 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 change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story.
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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