Finding Tale - Short Story - Ben and the Stolen Diamond - LKS2

Ben and the Stolen Diamond is a short story I wrote for my year 4 class’s Talk 4 Writing unit on finding tales. We used the story for reading lessons, vocabulary work and a basis for shared writing. We also created story maps and internalised this as a model text. The story follows the generic plot of a finding tale based on Pie Corbett’s research into teaching writing.

The story would be suitable for year 3 or 4 as it covers the grammar points for LKS2. In particular, there is a focus on fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases. There are also adverbs and an example of direct speech.

This resource pack includes a PDF and a Word version so that you can adjust the story to fit your class’s needs.

This resource complements the newspaper article on Ben and the Stolen Diamond which can be used for non-fiction teaching.