Imagining you are the characters in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can think from the character's point of view.
Key learning points
- Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story
- Acting out stories helps to understand character's feelings and actions
- By acting out parts of the story, vocabulary can be generated to help writing later
- Facial expressions and movements help the audience understand what is happening, such as shock from the girl
- Moving like the characters and objects can generate verbs, such as 'poured', 'raced' or 'hid'
Keywords
Point of view - imagining feelings or events from different people's experiences or thoughts
Character - a person or animal in a story
Emotions - feeling or mood
Expression - the ability to show emotions and feelings through facial movements, speech, gestures or body language
Verb - a doing or being word
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to generate interesting vocabulary to explain the expressions and movements.
The purpose of Learning Cycle 1 is to provide the children with vocabulary. Narrate how the children are feeling in their freeze-frames and get them to repeat. For example, you may say 'You look panicked.' and the children repeat 'We are panicked.'
Teacher tip
If you are in a school or working with a large group of pupils, assign different roles to the children to act out the entire story. Initially, they should use only facial expressions and movements. Then, introduce a narrator to retell the story.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is a character?
Q2.Which of these words is a noun? The hot porridge bubbled.
Q3.Which adjectives describe Jin?
Q4.How is Jin feeling at the start of the story?
Q5.Match the word to its definition.
Q6.Order the main events in the story.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What are the settings from the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?
Q2.Which of these is a character from 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?
Q3.Choose an adjective to describe how Jin feels when the old woman hands over the magical porridge pot.
Q4.When the porridge pot overflows, Jin feels __________. Choose an adjective to complete the sentence.
Q5.Which of these words is a verb?
Q6.Which adjective describes how the villagers are feeling at the end of the story?
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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