Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives
I can think from another person or character's perspective.
Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives
I can think from another person or character's perspective.
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Key learning points
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration.
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
- Imagining how people might feel because of certain actions can help to understand the perspective of others.
- Discussing feelings of others helps to generate alternative & more powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event.
- Using 'I', 'me' or 'my' is a way of speaking in the first person.
Keywords
Character - a person or animal in a story
Emotion - a feeling or mood
Facial expression - a way of communicating emotion through the face
Perspective - point of view
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to speak in the fist person imagining they are someone else.
The sentence stems should support. Teachers should ask the question, then say the sentence stem and provide children time to speak to someone to rehearse answers in full sentences. If they don't reply in full sentences, always re-phrase it for them.
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Equipment
You will need copies of the 2014 Harper Collins Children's Books edition of 'Paddington' by Michael Bond and the 2020 Macmillan Children's Books edition of 'Coming to England' by Floella Benjamin.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Floella
feels
excited