This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and sequence the main events in the traditional story poem of the Cat and the Fiddle and suggest alternative things that could happen in the narrative.

The class can select and record a list to illustrate what else could happen to the characters in different locations during the narrative events in the nursery rhyming poem.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and sequence the main events in the traditional story poem of the Cat and the Fiddle and suggest alternative things that could happen in the narrative

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the content and structure of a traditional story poem, a set of cards to record the sequence of the narrative events in a nursery rhyme and some templates to select and add matching illustrations to order each part of a traditional story poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the sequence of the main narrative events in a traditional story poem and suggest what else could happen to the characters,

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record the sequence of events, settings and characters that feature in some different nursery rhyme poems. 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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