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Year 1
Sequencing and making a story mountain for 'Wild'
You can create your own story mountain to retell a story.
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Year 1
Sequencing and making a story mountain for 'Wild'
You can create your own story mountain to retell a story.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Retelling a story helps us to remember the main events in a story and think about the different parts.
- Some events in a story can be joined using a joining "and".
- Story mountains map out the beginning, middle and end.
- Powerful adjectives can be added to a story mountain, such as "ferocious", "vibrant" and "playful".
- Retelling the story in the first person means we have to imagine we are the main character.
Keywords
Story mountain - a way to sequence and order key events of a story to retell
Plot - what happens in the story
Events - main parts of a story
Sequence - following the order in which a series of events happened
Common misconception
Pupils may only use the sequencing or descriptive language you have modelled.
Encourage pupils to refer back to previous learning to generate their own vocabulary. Model different options to children.
Make sure you provide opportunities to re-read the whole text to the children at the start of all lessons, encouraging them to join in.
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Licence
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which are the two settings in the story?
the forest and the roads
the house and the city
the girl and the strange animals
Q2.
Order these parts of a story.
Q3.
Which sequencing word would you use at the beginning of a story?
After that,
Finally,
Q4.
Which sequencing word could you use to show something surprising or unexpected has happened in a story?
After that,
Then,
Q5.
Which sequencing word would you use at the very end of a story?
Then,
First,
Q6.
Which word would you not use when retelling a story from your own perspective talking about yourself?
I
me
mine
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Order the sequencing words to show the order that you would use to write them.
Q2.
Match the event in the story to the sequencing word that could be used.
I lived in a magical, enchanted forest with my friends.
two strange, different animals appeared!
I returned to my wild, safe forest.
Q3.
Which two adjectives describe the forest from the perspective of the girl?
plain
scary
Q4.
Which two adjectives describe the bear?
refreshing
cold
Q5.
Which of these sentences uses an exclamation mark correctly to show excitement?
The girl felt peaceful!
The house was boring!
Q6.
Which tense is the story Wild told in?
present tense
future tense