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

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story. The children can write paragraphs predicting what might happen next in a fiction story.
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Learning Objectives
Identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own. Identifying how language and structure contribute to meaning.
Learning Outcomes
I can identify narrative techniques used by an author when describing characters to use a model for writing. I can explain how authors describe and utilise characters in a story.

Story Characters
Teaching sequence to help the children identify and record some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story

What Happened Next
Activity to help the children select and record what might happen next in a story involving a scenario concerning one of the story characters

Character List (support)
Activity to help the children select and record vocabulary words that could be used to describe different characters in a narrative story

Story Characters
Interactive activity to help the children identify and record some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record some of the information that can be used to describe a story character using a section from a narrative story
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