The Nutcracker Christmas Writing: Cut sequence and write to retell the story

Based on the story of The Nutcracker.

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

*Includes captions for children who are not writing and only sequencing and matching the description

To differentiate:

-Support could cut out and sequence the pictures and match with the captions

-Core children can sequence and use the word bank to also write about the pictures

-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. Cut, order and stick the activities. Writing captions for the first half of the images 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!