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

Thinking from the girl's perspective in 'Wild'

English

In 'Jack and the Beanstalk', children will build on their descriptive narrative writing by including more powerful verbs as well as generating a list of nouns using commas. 

In 'Paddington', the children developed their descriptive writing by joining two simple ideas to form a compound sentence. In this unit, pupils will build on this by including compound sentences in a full narrative.

'Wild': reading and writing

**You** are the little girl from 'Wild'. **What** animal did you ride on to get home to the forest? 

**You** are the little girl from 'Wild'. **What** did the bear teach you to do?

**Match** the emotion to the event in the story.

**Which** of these is another adjective to describe feeling angry?

First, I lived in a magical, enchanted forest and I felt peaceful. 

Suddenly, I heard a noisy car and two strange animals took me away!

Finally, I was back home in my wild, safe forest and I felt accepted.

**Order** these three events from the story.

She wanted to leave the forest with them. 

**Why** was the girl confused when the humans arrived? 

**Who** is the main character in the story?

**What** did the bear teach the little girl to do?

**What** animal did the little girl ride home on?

Emotions are how you are feeling on the inside.

Emotions describe your feelings on the inside and your appearance.

**Which** of these is a definition of emotion?

**Complete** this sentence. *__________ are used to describe nouns, including emotions.*

**Which** of these words would you **not** use if you were speaking from your own perspective? 

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