Lesson Five – Fable Writing
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to edit and redraft an alternative ending to a story fable to teach the reader another moral lesson through the narrative sequence of events and plot conclusion.
The class can practise using a checklist to make corrections to their writing before publishing in a class book to present fables that seek to teach moral lessons to readers.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to edit and redraft an alternative ending to a story fable to teach the reader another moral lesson through the narrative sequence of events and plot conclusion
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to identify and make corrections and improvements to an alternative ending to a story fable to show changes to the sequence of events and check for the use of the correct punctuation in dialogue sentences.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to edit and redraft an alternative ending to a story fable to teach the reader another moral lesson through the narrative.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and describe some of the different characters settings and events that can feature in traditional fables, identify families of words with common spellings and practise punctuating direct speech in sentences. 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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