Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure a narrative story describing a problem that a new character might cause when joining a school and a template to record illustrations and sentences for a storyboard to show the sequence of events in the planned narrative structure.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a first draft for a story describing a problem that a new character might cause when joining a school.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a story using familiar settings based on a book by a significant author, practise building words using roots and prefixes and use nouns in sentences with matching determinants. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.