Over the past few weeks, our English unit has been ‘Stop! That’s Not My Story!’ During this unit, we have been reading traditional tales and learning about their features.
We then used what we had learned and created our own stories. We thought carefully about who the main characters might be; where they would like to visit and what they would see. We also considered what we would do as the hero of our traditional tale.
We used some of our lessons to write our ideas into sentences in our books. Before we wrote our sentences, we talked about how important it is to say the sentence first. This is so that we can be really clear about what our sentence will say and the words we will need to write.
We also reminded ourselves of some important rules for writing a sentence: use a capital letter at the start; use finger spaces between words; use a full stop at the end.
When we had written the first draft of our stories in our books, we then copied them neatly onto paper so that we could create our own story books! Our final task was to share our fantastic stories with the Reception children!
