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

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Reading and responding to 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

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 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

Correct the spelling of the word in bold in this sentence: **Wuns** upon a time, there lived a little girl called Jin.

Correct the spelling and punctuation of the word in bold in this sentence: **hte** forest was lush.

Identify the adjective in this sentence: She met a mysterious woman.

a naming word of a person, place or thing

a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence

Finish this sentence. All sentences begin with a ...

Jin and her Grandmother lived in a village in the mountains.

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

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

Lesson outcome