This worksheet supports students in planning a narrative by introducing basic story structure. Kindergarten students use drawings, Year 1 students complete a structured story map, and Year 2 students develop a detailed story outline. Activities build foundational storytelling skills, encouraging sequencing, problem-solving, and creativity.
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences