Fast Finisher Activities
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Developing Your Understanding of Text Structures.
WALT: notice the language of time in stories. How the author shows us time moving on in texts.
Success Criteria:
- Recognise words that show us the order of events e.g. then, after, before, immediately, as soon as, now and others.
- Recognise words that show by time is moving in the past e.g. on, last in, ago, at, yesterday, today and maybe more.
- Look for the words that tell you the setting a character is in and check for words that told you when they entered that 'scene'.
Task Three
What is the author's main message to you?
Task Four
Write a modern day story with the same message and a different setting.
Task One
Read the story here. Watch the video here.
Task Two
Fold a piece of paper into four squares, you are to draw 4 pictures. You are going to be the illustrator. Illustrators have to pick the exact moment in the story and illustrate everything in it.
Picture 1
Draw a picture of what is happening on line 1, at the word 'bored'. In the picture we should see; who was there, where it is happening, what is happening and how the characters are feeling.
Picture 2
Draw a picture of what is happening on line 7, at the word 'laughed'.
Picture 3
Draw a picture of what is happening on line 19, at the word 'Wolf, Wolf!'
Picture 4
Draw a picture of what is happening on line 26, at the word 'come'.
The Little Red Hen
Developing Your Understanding of Text Sequences
WALT: notice the language of time in stories. How the author shows us time moving on in texts.
Success Criteria:
- Recognise words that show us the order of events e.g. then, after, before, immediately, as soon as, now and others.
- Recognise words that show by time is moving in the past e.g. on, last in, ago, at, yesterday, today and maybe more.
- Look for the words that tell you the setting a character is in and check for words that told you when they entered that 'scene'.
Task One
Read and listen to the story here.
Task Two
Fill in the google doc.
Task Three
What is the author's main message to you? Is the hen being mean when she doesn't give the animals any bread? Why or why no
Task Four
Write a modern day story with the same message and a different setting
