Stories, Poems and Plays for Ages 6 to 11 Course

What you will learn in 2 lessons

1. 1

   Story Elements

   Start here

   The child retells stories with key details, describes characters, setting and major events, finds the lesson and says who is telling the story.

   6 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Find who, where and what happens in a story
   2. 2.Follow how a story is built
   3. 3.Understand how characters feel, what they are like and why they act
   4. 4.Retell a story and find its lesson
   5. 5.Find out who is telling the story
   6. 6.Compare two stories
2. 2

   Theme and Point of View

   The child works out a story's theme from details, describes and compares characters in depth and explains how first- and third-person narration shape a story.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Understand characters from the clues in a story
   2. 2.Compare characters and how they get along
   3. 3.Work out a story's theme
   4. 4.Understand who tells a story and how that shapes it
   5. 5.Compare stories with similar themes