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Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can sequence a story and use it to retell.
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Year 1
Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can sequence a story and use it to retell.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Retelling a story helps us to remember main events in a story and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time'.
- Story mountains sequence the beginning, middle and end of a story.
- Only the most important events in the story need to be on a story mountain.
- Using words such as 'First,' and 'The next day,' at the start of the sentence helps the reader follow the story.
- Story mountains can be used to retell the story aloud.
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
Summary - an overview of a text’s main points and ideas; it tells readers the most important parts.
Common misconception
Pupils may find it difficult to identify the main events in a story and they may try and include too much on their story mountain.
Explain that the main events are the most important moments in the story. Without these moments, the story would not flow. Pick out some elements of the text that are minor moments and share these as non-examples.
For Task A, provide pupils with the six main events in the story in the wrong order. Ask them to cut and paste the events into the correct order on their story mountain.
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which word is the adjective in this sentence: The goats lived in a dry meadow.
goats
lived
meadow
Q2.
Match the word to the word class from this sentence: The troll fell into the cold river.
adjective
common noun
verb
Q3.
Stories that are made up or imagined are ...
poems
non-fiction
titles
Q4.
Which word completes this sentence so that it is in the past tense? The troll __________ at the little goat.
shouts
shouting
Q5.
Complete this sentence: All stories include a beginning, middle and ...
troll
song
poem
Q6.
Which sentence is correctly written?
it was old and rickety.
It was old and rickety
It was old. and rickety
it was Old and Rickety.
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6 Questions
Q1.
What does 'sequencing' mean?
A type of book.
Talking about features of a book.
Q2.
Which of these settings is at the beginning of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
bridge
river
green meadow
Q3.
Which of these are sequencing words?
Who
How
Q4.
Which part of the story is often where the characters face a big challenge or problem?
beginning
end
Q5.
Choose the best sequencing word to use at the end of the story. __________, the goats grazed happily on the sweet, green grass.
First,
Suddenly,
Then,
Q6.
Order these events that take place in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'.
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