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Characters, settings and plot in 'Wild'

You can identify the characters, setting and plot of the story 'Wild'.

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Characters, settings and plot in 'Wild'

You can identify the characters, setting and plot of the story 'Wild'.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Information about a character and setting can be found in the text and in illustrations.
  2. A front cover shares the title, 'Wild', the author, Emily Hughes and illustrations.
  3. Knowing some key information about the book, such as the setting being a forest, helps to make a prediction.
  4. A setting means where a story takes place.
  5. The plot is what the story is about.

Keywords

  • Prediction - making a guess using what we already know

  • Character - a person or an animal in a story

  • Setting - where the story takes place

  • Plot - what happens in the story

Common misconception

Pupils believe that bears live in forests in the United Kingdom.

Although bears do live in the woods, they do not live in the United Kingdom. This helps to show us that "Wild" is a fictional story.

Provide lots of opportunities to re-read the whole story to the class. Retell the story how you would like them to write it - past tense, using sequencing language, description and using "and" to join two ideas. Look at lessons 6-8 for the example.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which word is the adjective in this sentence: "The girl entered the dark wood"?
girl
Correct answer: dark
entered
Q2.
Match the word to the word class from this sentence: "Tall trees grow in a forest."
Correct Answer:tall,adjective

adjective

Correct Answer:trees,noun

noun

Correct Answer:grow,verb

verb

Q3.
__________ is a type of story that is made up or imagined.
Correct answer: Fiction
Non-fiction
A poem
An author
Q4.
The boy __________ to school. Which word completes this sentence so that it is in the past tense?
walks
walking
Correct answer: walked
Q5.
Put the story parts in order.
1 - beginning
2 - middle
3 - end
Q6.
Which sentence is correctly written?
it was dark and cold.
It was dark and cold
Correct answer: It was dark and cold.
It was dark. and cold
it was Dark and Cold.

6 Questions

Q1.
What are two settings from the story "Wild"?
in school
Correct answer: in a forest
Correct answer: in a house
at the beach
Q2.
What is a setting?
what happens in a story
Correct answer: the time and place where the story takes place
the people or animals in the story
Q3.
Which two characters were in the story "Wild"?
Correct answer: the little girl
the witch
Correct answer: the bear
the camel
Q4.
In the house, the girl feels __________. Choose one adjective to complete the sentence.
Correct answer: angry
happy
included
calm
Q5.
Which adjective describes how the girl is feeling at the end of story?
lonely
Correct answer: included
disappointed
angry
Q6.
Order the events that take place in the story "Wild" from the beginning to the end.
1 - The little girl made friends with the animals.
2 - The adults took the little girl to their house.
3 - The little girl returned to the forest to live.