A 5-day lesson plan where children explore stories and their origins, books, and storytelling. Activities cover creating illustrations, whiteboard story scenes, consonant blends, and subtraction.
What children learn
- Understand stories as ways to transfer information, experiences, and points of view.
- Distinguish factual stories from fictional narratives and identify the roles of teller and listener.
- Recognise that stories appear in books, newspapers, films, theatre, recordings, and everyday conversation.
- Trace storytelling from cave drawings and oral traditions to written books.
- Identify parts of a book and use imagination, illustrations, and familiar words to create a story.
Key activities
- Discussing the origins and forms of stories and interpreting cave paintings
- Painting a cave-style visual story on brown paper
- Illustrating a read-aloud story before seeing the book's original pictures
- Labelling the parts of a book and creating a group story and picture book
- Exploring consonant blends through puzzles, objects, and Show and Tell
- Introducing and practising subtraction with apples, blocks, bowling, playdough, and beanbags
You’ll need
story and picture books, cave-painting images, brown and white paper, chalk, coloured pencils, crayons, markers and watercolours, book-part labels, consonant-blend cards and objects, foam tree and apple cut-outs, blocks, equation and number cards, bowling pins, playdough, hoops and beanbags
Structure: Extracted sections cover Days 1, 2, 3, and 5; days use Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, and Maths