Starter quiz
- What can we usually find on the front cover of a book?
- video
- title ✓
- author ✓
- numbers
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- An illustrator is ...
- where the story happens.
- the person who has written the book.
- a person or animal in the story.
- the person who has drawn the pictures. ✓
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- The title of a book is ...
- the main event in the story.
- the name of the book. ✓
- where the story happens.
- the person who has written the book.
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- Put the parts of a story in the correct order.
- 1⇔beginning
- 2⇔middle
- 3⇔end
- Match these words to the correct word class in the following sentence: 'The little girl skipped towards Jacob.'
- little⇔adjective ✓
- girl⇔common noun ✓
- Jacob⇔proper noun ✓
- __________ is a type of story that is made up or imagined.
- An author
- A poem
- Fiction ✓
- Non-fiction
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Exit quiz
- What is a character?
- a person or an animal in a story ✓
- where the story takes place
- what happens in the story
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- Which of these characters are in the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?
- evil stepmother
- Jin ✓
- Cinderella
- old lady ✓
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- What is the setting of a story?
- a person or an animal in a story
- where the story takes place ✓
- what happens in the story
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- Which of these are settings in the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?
- grassy meadow
- village in the mountains ✓
- busy city
- bamboo forest ✓
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- When we look at the front cover of a book, what can help us make a prediction?
- author
- title ✓
- illustrator
- pictures or illustrations ✓
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- What happens at the end of 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?
- The old lady takes the magical porridge pot back.
- Jin learns how to use the pot carefully to make porridge for everybody. ✓
- They have to move away to a new village.
- Jin decides to stop making porridge for others and just use it for herself.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Predictions can be made based on illustrations, what has already been read and the front cover
- One person's prediction may be different to another person's
- Traditional tales often start by introducing the characters, such as the little girl and setting the scene
- 'The Magic Porridge Pot' teaches us to be generous and helpful to others
- Traditional tales mostly end happily, such as having enough food and sharing with others
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to make a prediction if they know the story already.
Celebrate any stories the pupils know already. Play a game to imagine that the memory has gone from their heads and just get them to use the front cover as clues imagining they are detectives.
Keywords
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Setting - where the story takes place
Plot - what happens in the story
Prediction - making a guess using what we already know
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