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


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to compose paragraphs using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story. The class can write sentences to suggest what could and couldn’t happen to characters to match story events.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to compose paragraphs using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story

Learning Objectives

In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have listened to. Using other similar writing as models for their own.

Learning Outcomes

I can select vocabulary to write sentences in the first and third person. I can explain how authors use language to indicate the feelings of different characters.

Story Events

Teaching sequence to help the children compose paragraphs using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story

Story Scenes

Shared reading text to help the children compose paragraphs using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story

Story Scenes (support)

Activity to help the children compose sentences using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story

Story Events

Interactive activity to help the children compose paragraphs using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to compose paragraphs using the first and third person describing a range of events that might feature in narrative story

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