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.
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'
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.'
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
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).
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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