Ordering Story Events

Year 2 EnglishReading Comprehension3 pages

About this worksheet

Twelve fairy tale events have fallen out of the Fairy Godmother's storybook, and Year 2 pupils sort them into Beginning, Middle and End. They range from 'Once upon a time' and 'Buying some magic beans' to 'Tasting three bowls of porridge' and 'The giant falls down'. Two reflection questions follow on the trickiest event and new events of the pupil's own. The answer key gives the full sort and example answers. Three pages, written for the England National Curriculum reading comprehension objectives.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Reading - comprehension

โ€œDiscussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are relatedโ€

The sorting table asks pupils to decide where each of the 12 events sits in a story.

Reading - comprehension

โ€œBecoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional talesโ€

The events come from familiar traditional tales, and question 2 asks pupils to add events from a fairy tale they know.

What's inside this worksheet

Story Events to Sort

A table of 12 events, such as 'Packing a picnic basket', 'Meeting a wicked wolf' and 'Climbing up to the clouds'. Pupils sort each one into a Beginning, Middle or End column.

Think About It

Pupils explain which event was hardest to place, then add one new event to each column from a fairy tale they know well.

How teachers use it

Card sort

Cut the 12 events into cards and let pairs move them around on the table before they write anything down.

Traditional tales unit

Use it at the end of the unit, then ask pupils to retell one tale using the events they sorted.

Class discussion

Question 1 works well as a talk task. 'Walking into the dark woods' fits more than one place, and the key accepts a reasoned answer.

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