Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can imagine that I am a character in the story.
Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can imagine that I am a character in the story.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story
- Describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of a story.
- Facial expressions and movements help the audience understand what is happening, such as fear from the goat
- There are different ways to express emotions. Facial expressions and actions help us to show feelings and emotions.
- The feelings we have can result in actions.
Keywords
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Feeling - an emotion
Emotion - feeling or mood
Expression - how people or characters show their feelings
Action - something that is done
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 horrified.' and the children repeat 'We are horrified'.
To help you plan your year 1 english lesson on: Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff', download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 1 english lesson on: Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff', download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
adjective
noun
verb
adverb
what happens in the story
where a story takes place
a person or animal in a story