Key learning points

1. Retelling a story helps to remember the main events and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time,'
2. Story mountains map out the beginning, middle and end
3. Only the most important events in the story need to be on a story mountain
4. Using sequencing language such as 'The next day,' at the start of the sentence helps the reader follow the story
5. Adding descriptive language will help when the story is being written

Keywords

• Story mountain - a way to sequence and order key events of a story to retell

• Sequence - following the order in which a series of events happened

• Main events - main parts of a story

• Adjective - describes a noun

Common misconception