Reception

The Gingerbread Man

Lessons (10)

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    In this lesson, we will listen to the story 'The Gingerbread Man' and think about our favourite part of the story.
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    In this lesson, we will look at a model story map and create our own story map to help retelling of the story.
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    In this lesson, we will revisit the story and begin to add actions to aid our understanding.
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    In this lesson, we will learn a story to the tune of a nursery rhyme, and use this to deepen our understanding of the story. We will then focus on a lyric and work to describe a picture.
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    In this lesson, we will use role play to describe using all of our senses.
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    In this lesson, we will use our phonics skills to write descriptions of familiar characters.
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    In this lesson, we will explore description of appearance and character and then write a simple sentence with an adjective.
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    In this lesson, we will recycle a familiar story by changing characters. We will create a new story map to record this change.
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    In this lesson, we will use a story map of our recycled story to step and tell the story of 'The Pie Person'.
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    In this lesson, we will learn how to create our own story using a plot matrix. We will follow the same 'escape' pattern as 'The Gingerbread Man'.
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