Jungle Explorers

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to convert and perform a story about exploring a jungle location that has been written in narrative prose into a matching play script.
The class can explain and model how to structure and format a play script to indicate character thoughts and actions in response to some of the narrative events in a story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to convert and perform a story about exploring a jungle location that has been written in narrative prose into a matching play script
Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explain how to structure and format a play script correctly to show character actions and thoughts and convert narrative prose into a matching play script and a worksheet to edit and correct the format and structure of a play script about an adventure to a jungle location.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to convert and perform a story about exploring a jungle written in narrative prose into a play script.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and performing play scripts using the correct structure and format to illustrate adventures to different locations. 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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