This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record the answers to questions that can be used to explore the narrative structure and content of an alternative version of a fairy tale.

The class can make predictions to suggest how a narrative story might continue and climax by suggesting what might happen to characters that encounter problems in different story settings.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and record the answers to questions that can be used to explore the narrative structure and content of an alternative version of a fairy tale

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to list the questions that can match answers about the narrative structure and content of an alternative version of a fairy tale and a set of cards for support ability levels to match questions and answers about what happened in a narrative story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore answers to questions to identify the narrative structure and content of an alternative version of a fairy tale.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise writing and editing an alternative version of a traditional story by swapping characters, settings and plot events, identify and spell families of words with prefixes and suffixes and punctuate direct speech in dialogue. 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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