📚 Part 1: Story Parts

1. Every story has three main parts. Which part comes first?

Beginning

Middle

End

2. In the beginning of Tuatara and the Skink, what do we learn about?

The characters

Where the story happens

How the story ends

3. What happens in the middle of a story?

We meet the characters

Something exciting or important happens

The story finishes

4. Circle the words that help us tell stories in order:

First Then Maybe Finally Yesterday Next

✏️ Part 2: Story Mapping

5. Draw or write one thing that happens in the BEGINNING of Tuatara and the Skink:

6. Draw or write what happens in the MIDDLE of the story:

7. Draw or write how the story ENDS:

8. Use the words 'first', 'then', and 'finally' to retell the story in three sentences:

First, _________________________________________________

Then, __________________________________________________

Finally, _______________________________________________

9. Think of your own simple story about two animals. What are the three main parts?

10. What is your favourite part of Tuatara and the Skink? Why?