Comparing fairy tales

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Reading and responding to 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Imagining you are the characters in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Writing descriptive sentences

Writing the beginning of the story: 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Writing the middle of the story: 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Writing the end of the story: 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

In 'Anna Hibiscus' Song', pupils will continue to build their descriptive vocabulary by describing characters, settings and their own family members as well as starting to write for a range of purposes. 

In 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff', children were introduced to the genres and features of fairytales and wrote sentences using an adjective. In this unit, pupils will compare fairytales and write a simplified version of the Magic Porridge Pot with a scaffolded introduction to sequencing and storytelling language. 

In this unit, pupils explore magical elements of fairy tales in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'. They sequence the events using a story mountain and add sequencing language and descriptions to orally retell the story. Pupils also apply their understanding of verbs and adjectives to their narrative writing.

'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing

Jin lives with her Grandmother in a village in the mountains.

Jin meets an old lady who gives her a magical porridge pot.

Jin uses the magic porridge pot to make porridge for all of the villagers.

Order the events that take place in the story ‘The Magic Porridge Pot'.

What is the same about the stories 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

Which of these is the main theme in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

What is the person who draws the pictures for a book called?

Which of these are characters from the story "The Magic Porridge Pot"?

Which of these is a setting in the story of "The Magic Porridge Pot"?

Match the main characters to the title of the well-known story.

Comparing fairy tales

Lesson outcome