Imagining you are the characters in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'
I can think from the character's point of view.
Imagining you are the characters in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'
I can think from the character's point of view.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story
- Acting out stories helps to understand character's feelings and actions
- By acting out parts of the story, vocabulary can be generated to help writing later
- Facial expressions and movements help the audience understand what is happening, such as shock from the girl
- Moving like the characters and objects can generate verbs, such as 'poured', 'raced' or 'hid'
Keywords
Point of view - imagining feelings or events from different people's experiences or thoughts
Character - a person or animal in a story
Emotions - feeling or mood
Expression - the ability to show emotions and feelings through facial movements, speech, gestures or body language
Verb - a doing or being word
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to generate interesting 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 panicked.' and the children repeat 'We are panicked.'
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
what happens in the story
where a story takes place
a person or animal in a story