How to write a story - Year 2 lesson complete with all related activities!

This resource includes everything you need to teach children in year 2 how to write stories. The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter and plenary activities
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Examples of good story writing (character description, setting description, problem descriptions, resolutions etc.)
√ Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
√ Differentiated consolidation tasks (3 levels)
√ Whole class, paired, group and independent activities
√ Feature checklists
√ Writing inspiration

Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the features of and write my own fiction story

Success Criteria:
I can explain the structure of a typical story.
I can write in past tense.
I can use powerful, descriptive language (adjectives, adverbs, fronted adverbials etc.)
I can describe events in chronological order.
I can use figurative language.

Lesson details:

• Starter activity
• Review of revelant prior learning - true or false statements about stories
• Teaching input/ information slides - story structures, how to write descriptively, how to develop a problem etc.
• Differentiated consolidation activities (3 levels) - past simple tense grammar task, complete the story-hill, find examples of XYZ in the text etc.
• Reading tasks - example of a good story
• Whole class writing task (model/ shared write)
• Independent writing task (writing stimuli included)
• Differentiated feature checklist for each ability level (3 levels)
• Plenary - synonyms for ‘went’ game

PLEASE NOTE - This lesson is also available for more advanced learners in KS2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-narrative-writing-lessons-how-to-write-a-story-teaching-powerpoint-activities-13115564

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.