📚 Worksheet 1: Character and Setting Detective

WALT: We are learning to identify and describe characters and settings in a story.

Success Criteria:

• I can name the main characters
• I can describe what characters look like
• I can identify where the story takes place

Princess Magnolia wears a _________________ dress and has _________________ hair.

Prince Noah is wearing ________________________________________________

Differentiation: Use picture cards for character identification. Provide word banks for descriptions.

Plenary: Share character descriptions with a partner. Which character would you like to be friends with?

🔢 Worksheet 2: Sequencing and Summarising

WALT: We are learning to put story events in order and write a summary.

Success Criteria:

• I can put events in the right order
• I can write what happened using my own words
• I can identify the beginning, middle and end

____ Princess Magnolia changes into her black outfit

____ A monster appears at the park

____ Princess Magnolia is having tea

____ The Princess in Black saves the day

At the beginning, Princess Magnolia was _________________________________

The problem was that ________________________________________________

At the end, _______________________________________________________

Differentiation: Provide picture sequence cards. Use story maps with visual cues. Pair stronger readers with developing readers.

Plenary: Act out the story sequence in groups of three. Discuss which part was most exciting.

🔍 Worksheet 3: Making Inferences with Evidence

WALT: We are learning to work out what characters are thinking and feeling using clues from the story.

Success Criteria:

• I can tell how characters are feeling
• I can find clues in the words and pictures
• I can explain my thinking

I know because in the story it says _____________________________________

I think Prince Noah wanted to help because ______________________________

The pictures show that the monster is friendly because ____________________

Differentiation: Provide feeling words chart. Use think-aloud strategies. Highlight key phrases in text for evidence.

Plenary: Gallery walk to view inference answers. Vote on the best evidence from the text.