Chinese New Year: The Great Race Writing task - Sequence write retell the story

Based on the story of Chinese New Year: The Great Race.

*This version of the story features the Cat who was pushed off the Ox’s back by the Rat

The pictures are based on the book illustrated by Dawn Casey. Read aloud videos can be found on YouTube

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

After reading the story, the children need to sequence the muddled up pictures to put the story back into the correct order.

To differentiate:

Support could cut out and sequence the pictures. The last page has the numbered answers which can stick next to the correct picture if they are unable to do the writing.
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!