This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and compose speech bubbles to record what different characters might have said about one of the narrative events in an adventure story.

The class can identify and explain reasons for the actions of some of the different characters in an adventure story to indicate the sequence of events in the narrative.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and compose speech bubbles to record what different characters might have said about one of the narrative events in an adventure story

Activities in this teaching pack include templates to select and record what different characters might have said about one of the narrative events in a story with animals to illustrate how they might respond to what happened and the actions of other characters.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose speech bubbles to record what different characters might have said about one of the narrative events in a story.

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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