Starter quiz
- Which of these words are adjectives?
- trees
- green ✓
- forest
- woman
- tall ✓
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- Which adjectives would you choose to best describe the pot the old woman gives Jin in the story?
- dirty
- busy
- magical ✓
- long
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- Match the word to the correct word class.
- pushed⇔verb ✓
- tall⇔adjective ✓
- village⇔noun ✓
- Which verb best fills the gap in this sentence: The porridge __________ the streets.
- emptied
- ate
- hopped
- flooded ✓
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- Finish this sentence: The porridge pot overflowed because...
- Jin was unkind to people.
- Jin said the magic words twice. ✓
- Jin left the oven on whilst it was cooking.
- a gust of wind came into the room and stirred up a storm in the kitchen.
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- Which is the only sentence that is correct as it makes sense?
- Said Jin the magic words twice.
- Jin the magic words twice.
- Jin said the magic words twice. ✓
- Jin said magic twice.
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Exit quiz
- Identify the verbs.
- villager
- tidied ✓
- content
- scrubbed ✓
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- Which adjective best describes the villagers at the end of the story?
- cleaned
- content ✓
- sad
- brave
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- What was the solution to the problem?
- They all made a river of porridge running through the village.
- Jin danced a little jig.
- The old woman came and took the pot away.
- Suddenly, Jin remembered the magical words to stop the pot. ✓
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- Which sequencing word is often used at the end of a story?
- One day,
- Finally, ✓
- First,
- Next,
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- Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
- everyone felt overjoyed.
- everyone felt overjoyed
- Everyone felt overjoyed
- Everyone felt overjoyed. ✓
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- Identify the sentence that makes complete sense.
- Finally, they the streets and lived happily ever after.
- Finally, they scrubbed the streets and happily ever after.
- Finally, they scrubbed the streets and lived happily ever after. ✓
- Finally, scrubbed the streets and lived happily ever after.
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Key learning points
- The last sequencing word used should show the story is coming to a close, such as 'Last,' or 'Finally,'
- The ending of a story usually solves the problem and ends happily.
- Rehearsing a sentence out loud before writing it helps us to remember it
- Reading a sentence back after writing helps to check it makes sense
- Every sentence must start with a capital letter and end with a full stop (or other closing punctuation)
Common misconception
Pupils may confuse when to use an adjective or verb.
Scaffold this for pupils using sentence stems throughout the lesson. Support pupils' grammar knowledge by referring to Lessons 3 and 6 in the 'Word class' unit.
Keywords
Ending - the final part of something, such as a story
Solution - when a problem is solved
Adjective - describes a noun
Verb - a doing or being word
Exclamation mark - a punctuation mark used to express strong emotion
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