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Sequencing and making a story mountain: '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 sequence a story and use it to retell.

Key Notes

  • Retelling a story helps to remember the main events and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time,'
  • Story mountains map out the beginning, middle and end
  • Only the most important events in the story need to be on a story mountain
  • Using sequencing language such as 'The next day,' at the start of the sentence helps the reader follow the story
  • Adding descriptive language will help when the story is being written

Vocabulary To Learn

  • story mountain: a way to sequence and order key events of a story to retell
  • sequence: following the order in which a series of events happened
  • main events: main parts of a story
  • adjective: describes a noun

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may find it difficult to identify the main events in the story and they may try and include too much on their story mountain.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.

Retelling a story helps to remember the main events and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time,'. Story mountains map out the beginning, middle and end.

2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'story mountain'

a way to sequence and order key events of a story to retell.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may find it difficult to identify the main events in the story and they may try and include too much on their story mountain. Correction: Explain that the main events are the most important moments in the story. Without these moments, the story would not flow. Pick out some elements of the text that are minor moments and share these as non-examples.

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