Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the structure and format of myths based on a story from Ancient Greece, a template to plan a similar story about a myth with a hero and monster as the main characters and a worksheet to edit and redraft a written composition of a Greek myth.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose and present a narrative story based on the text features of a myth from Ancient Greece about a hero and a monster.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.