Alternative Example lesson plan: Year 3 Term 2:

Topic: Fiction writing based on traditional

tales

Literacy Lesson:

Tine: 60 minutes
Date:

Objectives:
(taken from
Literacy
Strategy)

By the end of the lesson pupils will have covered aspects of these points:

Differentiation:

By intervention, support and outcome.

Links to
previous work:

Link to work done last term on

story settings and dialogue. Link
to traditional tales read in
Literacy Hour this term.

Assessment
strategy:

Organisation:

Whole class introduction and

Resources:

Writing fiction:
T1 to investigate the styles and voices of traditional story language - collect examples, e.g. story openings; scene
openers, e.g. Now when ..., A long time ago..., list, compare and use in own writing;
T6: to plan main points as a structure for story writing, considering how to capture points in a few words that can be
elaborated on later; discuss different methods of planning.
T7: to describe and sequence key events in a variety of ways, e.g. By listing, charting, mapping, making simple
storyboards.
T9 to write a story plan for own myth, fable or traditional tale, using story theme from reading but substituting different
characters or changing the setting;
T10 to write alternative sequels to traditional stories using the same characters and settings, identifying typical
phrases and expressions from story and using these to help structure the writing.
Linked
T2 to identify typical story themes, e.g. trials and forfeits, good over evil, weak over strong, wise over foolish;

By observation and output from computer-based

activity and written work.

Story Making - online activity

individual elicitation activity.

Group work for main activity.
Whole class plenary.

Collection of tradional tales

Projector (if available)
Whiteboard
Exercise books/paper

Timing

Stage

Teacher

Resources

15 minutes

Introduction &
develo
pment

Explain objectives of lesson and link with previous work

done on traditional tales.. Use open ended questions
to elicit responses to How do stories begin? What
genre of stories have we looked at/do you know of?
How can we plan a story? Teacher to scribe
responses.

Story Making - online

activity
Collection of tradional tales
Projector (if available)
Whiteboard

Demonstrate Story Making to whole class and explain its function

as an alternative to writing a structure for story writing.

35 minutes

Main activities
group work

Explain to pupils that, in groups, they are going to plan their own
story based on a traditional story. Some groups will use Story
Making to build story scene; choosing setting, characters and
props and print out finished story scene. Point out online
dictionary bookmark for checking spelling, definition etc.
Remainder of pupils will use paper and pen to structure story
using traditional methods to record main points, structure etc.

10 minutes

Plenary

Remind pupils of the lesson objectives. Pupils to share

work in progress within group. Selected pupils to
share work with class.

Exercise books/paper, print

outs from Story Making.

Story Making - online

activity
Book mark online
dictionary

Future work:

Pupils to write extended stories based on this lessons work, using either printed out story scenes or work recorded
in books. In future lesson groups to swop so all use Story Making to structure and plan a story. Pupils can then
compare methods used.
Link to Year 3 Term 3
T10 to plot a sequence of episodes modelled on a known story, as a plan for writing.
T13 to write more extended stories based on a plan of incidents and set out in simple chapters with titles and author
details; to use paragraphs to organise the narrative.