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Character, setting and plot in 'And Tango Makes Three'
I can explore the story through discussing the characters, setting and plot.
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Year 2
Character, setting and plot in 'And Tango Makes Three'
I can explore the story through discussing the characters, setting and plot.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- 'And Tango Makes Three’ is a narrative fiction that is based on a true story.
- The main characters in the story are two boy penguins, one named Roy and one named Silo.
- The story is set inside Central Park Zoo in New York City.
- The plot follows the story of how Roy and Silo find a way to become parents and have their own family.
- Roy and Silo are the first family in the zoo to have two dads but they live and love just like all the other families.
Keywords
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Setting - where the story takes place
Plot - what happens in the story
Common misconception
Children might think that a narrative fiction is always a completely made up story.
Explain that authors often taken inspiration from real life events to develop narrative fiction texts.
Use a story mountain with illustrations from the text to retell the story. Offer children an opportunity to sequence this and verbally retell the story to a partner.
Teacher tip
Equipment
You will need a copy of the 2007 Simon & Schuster UK Ltd edition of ‘And Tango Makes Three’ by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on
Open Government Licence version 3.0
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).Lesson video
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
What is a narrative fiction?
a real life story
a piece of poetry
Q2.
What is a character in a story?
where the story takes place
what happens in the story
Q3.
What is a setting in a story?
a person or an animal in a story
what happens in the story
Q4.
What is a plot in a story?
where the story takes place
a person or an animal in the story
Q5.
What is an illustration?
the words in a book
the back of a book
Q6.
Order the following elements of a narrative correctly.
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Who are the main characters in 'And Tango Makes Three'?
the zookeeper
Tango
Q2.
Where is the story of 'And Tango Makes Three' set?
in an unspecified zoo
Central Park Ice Rink in New York
the Arctic
Q3.
How were Roy and Silo different to other couples in the penguin area?
They liked to swim together.
They liked to sleep together.
Q4.
What one thing could Roy and Silo not do like the other make and female couples?
sing together
share a nest
Q5.
How did the zookeeper realise that Roy and Silo wanted to have a baby?
He saw them playing with all the baby penguins.
He saw them crying.
Q6.
How did Roy and Silo become parents?
They hatched a stone.
They produced an egg.