Lesson Four – Story Characters

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story about an adventurous experience.
The class can select and write matching paragraphs predicting what might happen next in a fiction story based on the preceding narrative events.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story about an adventurous experience
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to select and record what might happen next in a story involving a scenario concerning one of the story characters and list vocabulary words that could be used to describe different characters in a narrative story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore narrative structures and use of vocabulary by an established children’s writer, identify and spell words with silent letters and convert sentences between the third and first person. 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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