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Celebrate the year of the Horse and enjoy the rich mythology of Chinese New year with your students. We’ve collated a variety of teaching packs for different ages – focusing on either creative writing or non-fiction. |
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Ages 4-7
Narrative Pack – The Naming of the Years
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| With this pack, based around the traditional Chinese story of the ‘Naming of the Years’, pupils can: |
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Share our beautifully illustrated interactive story book |
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Sequence the story scenes |
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Use our templates to scaffold story planning and writing |
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Continue a story from one of our animal openers |
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Continue a story from one of our animal openers |
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Ages 7-9
Narrative Pack – Folk Tales
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| Pupils compare two folk tales, before writing their own story that uses the technique of anthropomorphism (endowing animals with human characteristics). For writing support, pupils can: |
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Read and compare the two folk tales with our books and comparison table |
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Continue and complete our model story |
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Plan their own story using our planning grid |
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Check their story structure includes the genre’s main features |
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Make initial notes and refine them into sentences, using our interactive tool |
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Non-Fiction Pack – Chinese New Year
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| These interactive and paper based writing resources are ideal for introducing Chinese New Year to you class, they can then carry out their own research and writing tasks. Pupils can: |
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Read about the festival’s origins and traditions in our colourful information book |
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Organise and expand their research notes using our Note Refiner tool |
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Write their own information or explanation books using either our interactive ‘Writer’ or printable template |
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Plus – design a virtual fireworks display! |
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Ages 9-11
Narrative Pack – Celestial Animals
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This pack focuses on the legendary Chinese Celestial Animals. Each is attributed with particular strengths, making them a rich starting point for action and adventure type stories.
Pupils can: |
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Take inspiration from our creature images and annotate with descriptive phrases and imagery |
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Compare traditional and adventure-style story openers |
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Plan their own stories using our planning grid |
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Explore dialogue, setting and action |
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Check their story includes the genre’s main features |
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A subscription to TES iboard+ costs just £1 a month and you gain access to over
1000
interactive resources. |
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Plus – find out your Chinese animal!