making a guess using what we already know

Reading and responding to 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

English

Comparing fairy tales

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

Which of these characters are in the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

Which of these are settings in the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

When we look at the front cover of a book, what can help us make a prediction?

The old lady takes the magical porridge pot back.

Jin learns how to use the pot carefully to make porridge for everybody.

Jin decides to stop making porridge for others and just use it for herself.

What happens at the end of 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

What can we usually find on the front cover of a book?

Put the parts of a story in the correct order.

Match these words to the correct word class in the following sentence: 'The little girl skipped towards Jacob.'

__________ is a type of story that is made up or imagined.

Reading and responding to 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Lesson outcome