Character, setting and plot in 'And Tango Makes Three' | English

Starter quiz

What is a narrative fiction?
- a made up story ✓
- a real life story
- a piece of poetry
What is a character in a story?
- where the story takes place
- what happens in the story
- a person or animal in the story ✓
What is a setting in a story?
- a person or an animal in a story
- where the story takes place ✓
- what happens in the story
What is a plot in a story?
- what happens in the story ✓
- where the story takes place
- a person or an animal in the story
What is an illustration?
- the words in a book
- a picture in a book ✓
- the back of a book
Order the following elements of a narrative correctly.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  beginning
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  build up
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  climax
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  resolution

Who are the main characters in 'And Tango Makes Three'?
- Roy ✓
- Silo ✓
- the zookeeper
- Tango
Where is the story of 'And Tango Makes Three' set?
- in an unspecified zoo
- Central Park Zoo in New York ✓
- Central Park Ice Rink in New York
- the Arctic
How were Roy and Silo different to other couples in the penguin area?
- They liked to swim together.
- They liked to sleep together.
- They were both boys. ✓
What one thing could Roy and Silo not do like the other make and female couples?
- sing together
- share a nest
- make an egg to have a baby ✓
How did the zookeeper realise that Roy and Silo wanted to have a baby?
- He saw them playing with all the baby penguins.
- He saw them trying to hatch a stone. ✓
- He saw them crying.
How did Roy and Silo become parents?
- They hatched a stone.
- They produced an egg.
- The zookeeper gave them an egg to hatch. ✓

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'And Tango Makes Three’ is a narrative fiction that is based on a true story.
The main characters in the story are two boy penguins, one named Roy and one named Silo.
The story is set inside Central Park Zoo in New York City.
The plot follows the story of how Roy and Silo find a way to become parents and have their own family.
Roy and Silo are the first family in the zoo to have two dads but they live and love just like all the other families.

Children might think that a narrative fiction is always a completely made up story.

Explain that authors often taken inspiration from real life events to develop narrative fiction texts.