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5-7 years Home Learning Activity Pack
Rhyming Stories Objectives
• Explore the narrative structure of Room on the Broom, and use it as the basis for creating their own story.
Resources • Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler • Resource Sheet 1: Character Cards • Resource Sheet 2: Story Plan Template
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Your child will have written a story structured in the same way as Room on the Broom.
Introduction Read Room on the Broom and together talk about how the story is structured to fit a ‘story mountain’.
• At the beginning the witch is flying along happily. • During the build-up, she loses various items and as a
result meets various other characters who join her on the broom.
• The problem comes when the broomstick snaps in half, and the witch is threatened by the dragon.
• Her friends provide a solution by pretending to be a monster that is even scarier than the dragon, and at the end of the story she magics up a new broom so the friends can continue on their way.
Main task Cut out the character cards on Resource Sheet 1: Character Cards and invite your child to pull a card, at random, out of a hat. Can they identify a possible mode of transport for each character they get? For example, a pirate would have a pirate ship, the knight would have his trusty steed, a king might have a carriage, the genie a magic carpet, the farmer a tractor, the astronaut a space buggy or rocket, the builder a digger, the doctor an ambulance and the racing driver a car or motorbike.
Ask your child to plan their own story using Resource Sheet 2: Story Plan Template – you may wish to print this at A3 size. Your child should choose one of the characters featured on the cards they pulled out of the hat and think about:
• What items might their chosen character lose on their journey? • Who might they meet who could help them find the objects and then come and join them? • What will happen to their mode of transport when there are too many passengers? For
example, the tractor might get stuck in a ditch, the knight’s horse might become lame, the pirate ship might spring a leak, etc.
• What threat could they need rescuing from? • How will the character’s friends help them? • How might their mode of transport be improved at the end?
Children should then write the story (without worrying about trying to rhyme like Julia Donaldson)!
Plenary
Ask your child to read out their story to you while you record them on a mobile. Allow your child to watch back the recording in order to give themselves a critique. How could they improve it? What would they do differently next time? Which bit of their story do they think is the best part?
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Resource Sheet 1: Character cards
Cut out these character cards to inspire Room on the Broom story planning.
snail
Astronaut
Genie
Builder
Pirate
Farmer
Doctor
Knight
Racing Driver
King
Image of knight by ©
sandybar- stock.adobe.com. A
ll other images ©
asantosg- stock.adobe.com.
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Curriculum links
Year 2 English: Pupils should be taught to: • discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related • consider what they are going to write before beginning by:
o planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about o writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
• make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing by: o evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils
