A Christmas Carol writing task: Cut sequence and write to retell the story

Based on the story ‘A Christmas Carol’.

This product includes

• 8 Hand drawn pictures with space for writing for the children to cut out, sequence, write about and colour in.

• Word bank and captions page for children who are sequencing the story and matching the description to the pictures rather than writing

• 8 pictures to cut out

• Blank story map page to paste the pictures in sequence

To differentiate:

-Support could use the pictures and story map page

-Core children could cut out and sequence the pictures and match with the captions

-More able children can sequence and write independently with given challenges such as ‘Include at least 3 time adverbials’

Sequencing activities usually take a few sessions.

1. Cut, order and stick the activities.

2. Writing captions for the first half of the images

3. Writing for the second half of the activities

I usually ask the children to colour after they have met the objectives for that session and finish colouring in at the end.

Black and white. No colour ink needed!

*Please note that I have arranged the pictures in order already. This is mainly to help teachers. I usually ask the children to cut them out and then give them a little shuffle before they start sequencing to challenge themselves!