1B - English

Lesson: English

Topic - Traditional tales (Rapunzel)

The children have been enjoying the traditional tale Rapunzel and the model text Dexter and the Troll. They have become familiar with the structure of the texts and understand they are stories where a good character overcomes a bad character. 

For this lesson, the children have been focusing on Dexter and the troll and how this story has five main parts called paragraphs. 

The five main parts:

1. Introducing the kind character and where they live
2. Bad character traps good character and is unkind
3. Kind character gets treated badly
4. The good character makes a plan
5. The good character scapes

The children had to work together in groups and read the 5 statements about each part of the story Dexter. Through discussion, they had to place them in the correct order (see below).

Part Sequence Activity
1 Dexter is a boy with blue eyes and black hair.
2 Dexter is trapped in a cave.
3 Dexter is made to make troll soup and told he
can never leave.
4 Dexter decides to make a plan with his rat friend to
escape.
5 Dexter and the rat make troll soup and
escape.

After putting them in order, the children had to re-enacted the story through role-play and freeze framing to represent each part of the story.