Key Stage Two : English : Year Five Planning : Story Ingredients : Lesson Five – Story Plots


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and describe some of the plots that might feature in different stories to match a range of characters settings. The class can try recording plots for matching stories using a limited number of words.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and describe some of the plots that might feature in different stories to match a range of characters settings

Learning Objectives

In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters in what pupils have listened to. Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify narrative techniques used by an author to provoke different reactions in a reader. I can write descriptions of story characters to match a narrative style of an author.

Story Plots

Teaching sequence to help the children select and describe some of the plots that might feature in different stories to match a range of characters settings

Story Plots

Activity to help the children compile plots for different stories by selecting from a range of characters, settings and events

Story Plots (support)

Activity to help the children compile plots for different stories by selecting from a range of characters

Story Plots

Interactive activity to help the children select and describe some of the plots that might feature in different stories to match a range of characters settings

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and describe some of the plots that might feature in different stories to match a range of characters settings

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