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Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

'The Three Billy Goats Gruff': reading and writing

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils explore traditional tales, sharing their preferences and focusing on 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. They orally retell a story using sequencing language. They also compose sentences including adjectives to describe the characters in the story. Finally, pupils write the story.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to imagine that you am a character in the story.

Key Notes

  • Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story
  • Describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of a story.
  • Facial expressions and movements help the audience understand what is happening, such as fear from the goat
  • There are different ways to express emotions. Facial expressions and actions help us to show feelings and emotions.
  • The feelings we have can result in actions.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • character: a person or an animal in a story
  • feeling: an emotion
  • emotion: feeling or mood
  • expression: how people or characters show their feelings
  • action: something that is done

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may struggle to generate 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. Describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of a story.

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

a person or an animal in a story.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may struggle to generate 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 horrified.' and the children repeat 'We are horrified'.

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