Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how authors use language and sentence structures in fantasy stories and a worksheet to select and record information from an extract from The Phoenix and the Carpet by E S Nesbit to support viewpoints and opinions of characters in a story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select information from a reading text extract to support viewpoints and opinions of characters in a story.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the common structures and features of a range of different types of stories and poems. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.