imagining feelings or events from different people's experiences or thoughts

the ability to show emotions and feelings through facial movements, speech, gestures or body language

Imagining you are the characters in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

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In 'Anna Hibiscus' Song', pupils will continue to build their descriptive vocabulary by describing characters, settings and their own family members as well as starting to write for a range of purposes. 

In 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff', children were introduced to the genres and features of fairytales and wrote sentences using an adjective. In this unit, pupils will compare fairytales and write a simplified version of the Magic Porridge Pot with a scaffolded introduction to sequencing and storytelling language. 

'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing

What are the settings from the story 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

Which of these is a character from 'The Magic Porridge Pot'?

Choose an adjective to describe how Jin feels when the old woman hands over the magical porridge pot.

When the porridge pot overflows, Jin feels __________. Choose an adjective to complete the sentence.

Which adjective describes how the villagers are feeling at the end of the story?

Which of these words is a noun? The hot porridge bubbled. 

How is Jin feeling at the start of the story?

Jin meets an old lady with a magical porridge pot.

Jin uses the magic porridge pot to feed the hungry villagers.

The magic porridge pot overflows and the streets are filled with porridge.

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