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Sequencing and making a story mountain for 'Wild'

'Wild': reading and writing

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Lesson Summary

You can create your own story mountain to retell a story.

Key Notes

  • Retelling a story helps us to remember the main events in a story and think about the different parts.
  • Some events in a story can be joined using a joining "and".
  • Story mountains map out the beginning, middle and end.
  • Powerful adjectives can be added to a story mountain, such as "ferocious", "vibrant" and "playful".
  • Retelling the story in the first person means we have to imagine we are the main character.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • story mountain: a way to sequence and order key events of a story to retell
  • plot: what happens in the story
  • events: main parts of a story
  • sequence: following the order in which a series of events happened

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may only use the sequencing or descriptive language you have modelled.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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

Retelling a story helps us to remember the main events in a story and think about the different parts. Some events in a story can be joined using a joining "and".

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 only use the sequencing or descriptive language you have modelled. Correction: Encourage pupils to refer back to previous learning to generate their own vocabulary. Model different options to children.

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