Five Little Monkeys Story - Turning a nursery rhyme into a story

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Included are individual lesson resources and a detailed powerpoint.

This five lesson sequence will see children converting the rhyme Five Little Monkeys into a story.

Lesson 1 - Children will learn about the structure of a story and together place five little monkeys into this. Children will go onto create a comic strip.

Lesson 2 - Children will focus on the introduction. Through carefully built up steps children will develop a sophisticated story openers and a bank of adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe the monkeys and their home.

Lesson 3 - Children will write the introduction to their story.

Lesson 4- Children will plan the rest of the story thinking about how they can expand on the events of the story.

Lesson 5 - Children will write up the rest of the story.

Children will be guided through each stage in a thorough powerpoint that provides a variety of carefully thought out steps.

Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task.

Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning.

Powerpoint guide
Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc
Red slides - Teacher led tasks
Blue slides - Reflection time
Yellow slides - independent application