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Thinking from different perspectives: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
I can think from the perspective of different characters.
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Year 1
Thinking from different perspectives: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
I can think from the perspective of different characters.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Expressions and actions of characters help us to infer how a character feels, such as when Jack races up the beanstalk
- Recalling parts of a story help us to remember what happened, such as remembering the order of what Jack steals.
- Asking questions to the character helps us to consider key events and themes
- Illustrations can offer clues as to how characters might feel or what might happen next
- Thinking from different character's perspectives helps us to decide which character is in the right or wrong
Keywords
Emotions - feelings or mood
Perspective - point of view
Sequence - following the order in which a series of events happened
Question - a type of simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to generate vocabulary to explain the expressions and movements.
The purpose of learning cycle 1 is to provide the children with vocabulary. Narrate how the children are feeling in their freeze-frames and get them to repeat. For example, you may say 'You look famished.' and the children repeat 'We are famished'.
If you are in a school or working with a large group of pupils, assign different roles to the children to act out the entire story. Initially, they should use only facial expressions and movements. Then, introduce a narrator to retell the story.
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6 Questions
Q1.
What is a character?
what happens in the story
where the story takes place
the name of a story
Q2.
Which of these words are nouns? She threw the beans out the window.
threw
out
the
Q3.
Which adjectives describe Jack?
old
enormous
furious
Q4.
How do Jack and his mother feel at the start of the story?
content
sleepy
furious
Q5.
Match the word to its definition.
what happens in the story
where a story takes place
a person or animal in a story
Q6.
Order the main events in the story.
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6 Questions
Q1.
What are the settings from 'Jack and the Beanstalk'?
bamboo forest
village
beach
Q2.
Which of these is a character from 'Jack and the Beanstalk'?
fairy godmother
market
goats
magic beans
Q3.
Choose an adjective to describe how Jack feels when the old man hands over the magical beans.
bored
scared
lazy
Q4.
When the giant wakes up and sees Jack, Jack feels __________. Choose an adjective to complete the sentence.
bored
excited
lazy
Q5.
Fill in the missing key word: Different characters can have different __________ about the same event.
questions
sequences
answers
Q6.
Which adjective describes how Jack is feeling at the end of the story?
lonely
disappointed
grumpy
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