Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can sequence a story and use it to retell.
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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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.
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