Year 1 - English
Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives
'Paddington': reading and writing
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Lesson Summary
You will learn to think from another person or character's perspective.
Key Notes
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration.
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
- Imagining how people might feel because of certain actions can help to understand the perspective of others.
- Discussing feelings of others helps to generate alternative & more powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event.
- Using 'I', 'me' or 'my' is a way of speaking in the first person.
Vocabulary To Learn
- character: a person or animal in a story
- emotion: a feeling or mood
- facial expression: a way of communicating emotion through the face
- perspective: point of view
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may struggle to speak in the fist person imagining they are someone else.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration. One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'character'
a person or animal in a story.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may struggle to speak in the fist person imagining they are someone else. Correction: The sentence stems should support. Teachers should ask the question, then say the sentence stem and provide children time to speak to someone to rehearse answers in full sentences. If they don't reply in full sentences, always re-phrase it for them.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Characters, setting and plot in 'Paddington' Study Guide
- Comparing 'Coming to England' to 'Paddington' Study Guide
- Comparing emotions and feelings in 'Paddington' Study Guide
- Describing the setting of 'Paddington' Study Guide
- The theme of identity Study Guide
- Writing a character description of Paddington Study Guide
- Writing a postcard from Paddington listing places and feelings Study Guide
- Writing a postcard with descriptions and questions Study Guide
- Writing facts about Floella Benjamin Study Guide
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