The Bird and the Forest Fire: middles

In this lesson, we will listen to the story, 'The Bird and the Forest Fire' and create a plot matrix to help us understand the most important parts.

In this lesson, we will recap our memory of the story, map the story and step through the story.

In this lesson, we will compare the story middle with other traditional fairy tales, hot seat the main character and order vocabulary that we pull out from the middle of the story.

In this lesson, we will learn about simple and compound sentences. We will also think about what the effect of long and short sentences are and why we need variation.

In this lesson, we will think about why prediction skills are so important in reading. We will also find evidence from the text to make our own predictions in a writing activity.

In this lesson, we will box up, 'The Bird and the Forest Fire' focusing on the main events, key words and the reader's mood.

In this lesson, we will listen to the middle of another story. We will use the toolkit for middles that build drama to explore how the writer creates drama and suspense and then we will try writing our own.

In this lesson, we will use our boxing up and the toolkit to help us write the first two events in the middle of our story. We will focus on building drama for our reader through our use of time, uncertainty and vagueness.

In this lesson, we will use our boxing up and the toolkit to help us write the third and fourth events in the middle of our story. We will focus on building drama for our reader through our use of time, uncertainty and vagueness.

In this lesson, we will use our boxing up and the toolkit to help us write the final two events in the middle of our story. We will focus on building drama for our reader through our use of time, uncertainty and vagueness.