Key Stage 1

The children will enter the story space to music and there will be a game about listening to the length and timbre of the music.

This helps to give the children a chance to acclimatise themselves to what is expected of them; they need to listen, contribute and comment at appropriate times. 

With an emphasis of the linear nature of traditional tales there will be a simple analysis of a story into its component parts; beginning, middle and end. This will be orally linked to the fact that the story needs to fulfil the reader’s and the listener’s needs by providing detail and content and answers to the "Who? Where?What? Why? and the When?" of a story. To this end I have written a song about traditional stories using the 5 Ws.

A relevant traditional tale will be told and linked to music and the children’s current topic or theme. There will be a brief question and answer session where the recently told story will be analysed for its content, structure and fulfilling of answers to the listeners' questions.

This will be followed by an orally constructed, simple story using the selection of three everyday classroom objects and discussion which tries to fulfil the audience’s needs. This can be used afterwards as a follow on activity for story construction, recall and discussion in speaking and listening.

With the later stages of Key Stage 1 there is a more detailed analysis linked to the SATs requirements and a formula for creating a simple story which is created using only three objects; one for the beginning, another for the middle and the last for the end of the story. The children will see me modelling note taking and plotting and planning the story with details about setting and character.