This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to dramatise and retell a traditional story with animal characters that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson related to the story narrative.

The class can suggest and illustrate how a story might change with the introduction of a new character to one of the narrative events in the fable.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to dramatise and retell a traditional story with animal characters that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson related to the story narrative

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the structure of a fable that is used to teach the reader a lesson and a template to make a mask to use in a retelling of a traditional story about a fable that teaches the reader a lesson.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to dramatise and retell a traditional story that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson.

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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