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

Key Notes

  • Retelling a story helps us to remember main events in a story and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time'.
  • Story mountains sequence the beginning, middle and end of a story.
  • Only the most important events in the story need to be on a story mountain.
  • Using words such as 'First,' and 'The next day,' at the start of the sentence helps the reader follow the story.
  • Story mountains can be used to retell the story aloud.

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
  • summary: an overview of a text's main points and ideas; it tells readers the most important parts.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may find it difficult to identify the main events in a 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 us to remember main events in a story and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time'. Story mountains sequence the beginning, middle and end of a story.

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 a 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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