Lesson Five – Book Review

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and write a review for the class book corner recommending a narrative story to another reader to outline reasons as to why it should be read and enjoyed.
The class can identify and explain reasons for the sequence of events in a story and the reactions of the characters to what happened in the narrative.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and write a review for the class book corner recommending a narrative story to another reader to outline reasons as to why it should be read and enjoyed
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record a review for the class book corner recommending a narrative story to another reader outlining the sequence of events and some of the character actions and thoughts.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a review for the class book corner recommending a narrative story to another reader.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore the narrative structure and sequence of events in a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters. 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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