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In this lesson, we will start the process of 'recycling' the story of 'Honey and Trouble' by choosing new animal characters to swap in our story map.
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In this lesson, we will talk through and 'step' our new recycled version of 'Honey and Trouble'.
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In this lesson, we will use our character writing toolkit to explore the main inner quality of our new recycled animal character, thinking of adjectives to describe our character's appearance and personality.
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In this lesson, we will explore sentences in our 'Honey and Trouble' story that express big feelings, and practise writing them with an exclamation mark.
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In this lesson, we will practise our reading strategies and look for information and clues to help us answer questions about one of our new recycled characters.
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In this lesson, we will adapt our previous 'boxing up' of the 'Honey and Trouble' story to accommodate our new recycled animal characters, and make a character plan for one of our animal friends.
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In this lesson, we will read a section of a recycled 'Honey and Trouble' story as a writer, thinking of how the recycled character of Sister Python has been described, using our writing toolkit, before considering how our new main character speaks and writing independent sentences.
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In this lesson, we will use our adjective list, and everything we have learned from the character writing toolkit, to start writing a description of our recycled main character, focusing first on their physical appearance and dress.
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In this lesson, we will use our adjective list, and everything we have learned from the character writing toolkit, to continue writing a description of our recycled main character, focusing on how their actions show their personality.
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In this lesson, we will use our adjective list, and everything we have learned from the character writing toolkit, to finish writing a description of our recycled main character, focusing on how their speech, thoughts and feelings, show us what they are like.
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