'The Sheep Pig': reading
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around narrative structure and inference explored in the prior unit, 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'. In this unit, pupils will read and listen to a more complex narrative and will discuss characterisation in more detail. They will explore the structure of the narrative and how turning points in the plot affect the story. This unit prepares pupils to develop their inference skills further with a more complex narrative and story structure in 'The Borrowers' in Year 4.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding in multisyllabic words.
- Ability to read common exception words by sight.
- Ability to retrieve basic textual information.
- Ability to infer meaning from a text.
- A narrative usually follows a set story structure: opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
- Narratives usually have a protagonist and other characters.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around narrative structure and inference explored in the prior unit, 'Anansi and the Antelope Baby'. In this unit, pupils will read and listen to a more complex narrative and will discuss characterisation in more detail. They will explore the structure of the narrative and how turning points in the plot affect the story. This unit prepares pupils to develop their inference skills further with a more complex narrative and story structure in 'The Borrowers' in Year 4.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding in multisyllabic words.
- Ability to read common exception words by sight.
- Ability to retrieve basic textual information.
- Ability to infer meaning from a text.
- A narrative usually follows a set story structure: opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
- Narratives usually have a protagonist and other characters.
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Sheep Pig': reading
In this unit, pupils read and explore the classic narrative 'The Sheep Pig'. They use retrieval and inference to develop their comprehension of the text. Finally, pupils identify the turning point in the story, marking the change in direction of the plot and discussing how this affects the story.
4 lessons in unit
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