Year 2

The Bird and the Forest Fire: middles

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Lessons (10)

To listen to a story

In this lesson, we will listen to the story, 'The Bird and the Forest Fire' and create a plot matrix to help us understand the most important parts.

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To tell a story from memory

In this lesson, we will recap our memory of the story, map the story and step through the story.

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To explore the middle of a story

In this lesson, we will compare the story middle with other traditional fairy tales, hot seat the main character and order vocabulary that we pull out from the middle of the story.

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To vary sentence length for effect

In this lesson, we will learn about simple and compound sentences. We will also think about what the effect of long and short sentences are and why we need variation.

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To make predictions

In this lesson, we will think about why prediction skills are so important in reading. We will also find evidence from the text to make our own predictions in a writing activity.

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To box up for a purpose

In this lesson, we will box up, 'The Bird and the Forest Fire' focusing on the main events, key words and the reader's mood.

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To explore how a writer builds drama

In this lesson, we will listen to the middle of another story. We will use the toolkit for middles that build drama to explore how the writer creates drama and suspense and then we will try writing our own.

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To write a story with a dramatic middle (Part 1)

In this lesson, we will use our boxing up and the toolkit to help us write the first two events in the middle of our story. We will focus on building drama for our reader through our use of time, uncertainty and vagueness.

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To write a story with a dramatic middle (Part 2)

In this lesson, we will use our boxing up and the toolkit to help us write the third and fourth events in the middle of our story. We will focus on building drama for our reader through our use of time, uncertainty and vagueness.

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To write a story with a dramatic middle (Part 3)

In this lesson, we will use our boxing up and the toolkit to help us write the final two events in the middle of our story. We will focus on building drama for our reader through our use of time, uncertainty and vagueness.

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