Writing the beginning of a story: 'The Three Little Pigs'
I can write the beginning of a traditional tale, introducing the characters and setting.
Writing the beginning of a story: 'The Three Little Pigs'
I can write the beginning of a traditional tale, introducing the characters and setting.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Traditional tales are mostly told in the past tense.
- The beginning of a story introduces the main characters, setting and plot.
- Two ideas can be joined using the joining word 'and'.
- When a sentence has two adjectives before a noun, a comma is needed between them, such as 'excited, adventurous pigs'.
- An adverb describes a verb; adverbs can describe how something happened, such as ‘proudly’.
Keywords
Beginning - the start of something
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Setting - where the story takes place
Plot - what happens in the story
Adverb - describes a verb
Common misconception
Children may struggle with the spelling of certain words.
Where possible, encourage the children to use phonics strategies to create phonetically plausible spellings. For other words, create a word bank for children to refer to. 'Decided', 'countryside' and 'adventure' would be useful words to include.
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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 naming word for people, places or things
describes a noun
a doing or being word
joins words or ideas together
Exit quiz
6 Questions
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