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Imagining you are the characters in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils explore magical elements of fairy tales in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'. They sequence the events using a story mountain and add sequencing language and descriptions to orally retell the story. Pupils also apply their understanding of verbs and adjectives to their narrative writing.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to think from the character's point of view.

Key Notes

  • 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'

Vocabulary To Learn

  • 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 Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may struggle to generate interesting vocabulary to explain the expressions and movements.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this English learning goal in two key 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.

2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'point of view'

imagining feelings or events from different people's experiences or thoughts.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may struggle to generate interesting vocabulary to explain the expressions and movements. Correction: 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.'.

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