Year 2 - English
Sequencing 'Yoshi the Stonecutter' and making connections
'Yoshi the Stonecutter': reading
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils read and explore the text, 'Yoshi the Stonecutter'. They use a range of strategies to decode words and build reading fluency. Finally, they learn to sequence the story and make connections to the text.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make connections linked to your own experiences and sequence events in a story.
Key Notes
- Traditional tales often have a theme that is central to the story.
- The theme often leads to a moral that can teach us a lesson about something.
- Thinking about the moral can help us change something in our lives.
- When we sequence events in a story, we put them in chronological order.
- Sequencing the main events of the story helps to summarise the whole story.
Vocabulary To Learn
- theme: a big idea, topic or message that appears in a story
- moral: a lesson that can be learnt from a story or experience
- sequence: place events in order
- chronological: following the order in which a series of events happened
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Children may find it difficult to identify the main events in the story and they may try to include too much information.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Traditional tales often have a theme that is central to the story. The theme often leads to a moral that can teach us a lesson about something.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'theme'
a big idea, topic or message that appears in a story.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Children may find it difficult to identify the main events in the story and they may try to include too much information. 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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