Starter quiz
- Which word is the adjective in this sentence: "The girl entered the dark wood"?
- girl
- dark ✓
- entered
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- Match the word to the word class from this sentence: "Tall trees grow in a forest."
- tall⇔adjective ✓
- trees⇔noun ✓
- grow⇔verb ✓
- __________ is a type of story that is made up or imagined.
- Fiction ✓
- Non-fiction
- A poem
- An author
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- *The boy __________ to school.* Which word completes this sentence so that it is in the past tense?
- walks
- walking
- walked ✓
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- Put the story parts in order.
- 1⇔beginning
- 2⇔middle
- 3⇔end
- Which sentence is correctly written?
- it was dark and cold.
- It was dark and cold
- It was dark and cold. ✓
- It was dark. and cold
- it was Dark and Cold.
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Exit quiz
- What are two settings from the story "Wild"?
- in school
- in a forest ✓
- in a house ✓
- at the beach
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- What is a setting?
- what happens in a story
- the time and place where the story takes place ✓
- the people or animals in the story
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- Which two characters were in the story "Wild"?
- the little girl ✓
- the witch
- the bear ✓
- the camel
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- In the house, the girl feels __________. Choose one adjective to complete the sentence.
- angry ✓
- happy
- included
- calm
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- Which adjective describes how the girl is feeling at the end of story?
- lonely
- included ✓
- disappointed
- angry
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- Order the events that take place in the story "Wild" from the beginning to the end.
- 1⇔The little girl made friends with the animals.
- 2⇔The adults took the little girl to their house.
- 3⇔The little girl returned to the forest to live.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Information about a character and setting can be found in the text and in illustrations.
- A front cover shares the title, 'Wild', the author, Emily Hughes and illustrations.
- Knowing some key information about the book, such as the setting being a forest, helps to make a prediction.
- A setting means where a story takes place.
- The plot is what the story is about.
Common misconception
Pupils believe that bears live in forests in the United Kingdom.
Although bears do live in the woods, they do not live in the United Kingdom. This helps to show us that "Wild" is a fictional story.
Keywords
Prediction - making a guess using what we already know
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Setting - where the story takes place
Plot - what happens in the story
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