Over the last few weeks we have listened to the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and talked about the language he uses and how he uses it to make a fantastic story. In pairs, we built sentences using some of Roald Dahl’s language, along with a variety of openers and connectives of our own.

We’ve been learning about the structure of a story and how it starts with the Opening, moves into the Build-up, then the Problem or dilemma, then the Resolution and finally the Ending. Once we had our sentences, we grouped them into the right parts of the story and made a Story Map. In the Story Map, we have little pictures that stand for the words in our sentences. Over the course of a week, we practise acting out our story and telling it to each other. By the time we go to write it down, we have all the words in our heads and we can put our story down on paper, using all the  fabulous new

vocabulary that we’ve learned.

Our finished books look great.

Next week, we’ll change our stories. We will probably use a lot of the same vocabulary as we did today, but we’ll change the characters and setting to show we know how to use the words again in a different way.