Thinking from different perspectives in 'The Three Little Pigs'
I can think from a character’s perspective to understand their feelings and actions.
Thinking from different perspectives in 'The Three Little Pigs'
I can think from a character’s perspective to understand their feelings and actions.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Using 'I', 'me', 'my', 'we' or 'us' is a way of speaking in the first person.
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration.
- Another way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
- Discussing the feelings of others helps to generate powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event.
- Considering an event in the story from a character's point of view helps us to understand the plot of the story better.
Keywords
Perspective - a point of view
Adjective - adds detail to a noun
Emotion - a feeling or mood
First person - the 'I/we' perspective
Plot - what happens in a story
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to generate their own vocabulary or understand the vocabulary given to them.
In LC2, look at the children's expression when they are freeze framing. Then, put the description into a sentence e.g. 'You look terrified.'. The children mirror the facial expression and tone from you and then repeat the sentence.
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Equipment
You need a copy of 'The Three Little Pigs', which is in the additional resources for this lesson.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a person or animal in a story
where a story takes place
what happens in the story
Exit quiz
6 Questions
beginning
middle
end
excited
proud
cosy