Starter quiz
- Which word is the adjective in this sentence: Jin lived in a small village.
- Jin
- lived
- small ✓
- village
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- Match the word to the word class from this sentence: The magical pot bubbled.
- magical⇔adjective ✓
- pot⇔noun ✓
- bubbled⇔verb ✓
- Stories that are made up or imagined are ...
- poems
- fiction ✓
- non-fiction
- titles
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- Which word completes this sentence so that it is in the past tense? Jin __________ home.
- runs
- ran ✓
- running
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- Complete this sentence: All stories include a beginning, middle and ...
- prince.
- end. ✓
- song.
- poem.
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- Which sentence is correctly written?
- she met a mysterious woman.
- She met a mysterious woman
- She met a mysterious woman. ✓
- She met. a mysterious woman.
- she met a Mysterious woman.
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Exit quiz
- What does 'sequencing' mean?
- a type of book
- putting things in order ✓
- talking about features of a book
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- Which of these settings is at the beginning of 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?
- bridge
- river
- village in the mountains ✓
- bamboo forest
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- Which of these are sequencing words?
- One day, ✓
- After that, ✓
- Who
- Finally, ✓
- How
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- Which part of the story is often where the characters face a big challenge or problem?
- beginning
- middle ✓
- end
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- Choose the best sequencing word to use at the end of the story. __________, the villagers managed to tidy up the mess and destruction created by the porridge.
- First,
- Suddenly,
- One day,
- Finally, ✓
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- Order these events that take place in the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'.
- 1⇔A wise, old lady gave Jin a magical porridge pot.
- 2⇔The magical porridge pot overflowed into the house, streets and village.
- 3⇔Jin and the villagers worked as a team to tidy up the village.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Retelling a story helps to remember the main events and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time,'
- Story mountains map out the beginning, middle and end
- Only the most important events in the story need to be on a story mountain
- Using sequencing language such as 'The next day,' at the start of the sentence helps the reader follow the story
- Adding descriptive language will help when the story is being written
Common misconception
Pupils may find it difficult to identify the main events in the story and they may try and include too much on their story mountain.
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.
Keywords
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
Adjective - describes a noun
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