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Romance

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Action/Adventure

Crime/Detective

Castle

Laboratory

Dark woods

The Moon

Restaurant

Desert

Sewers

Jungle

Big city

Housing estate

Match the most appropriate setting to the type of story. Explain your choices.

On a cliff stood a house. The curtains that hung at the windows were and . The front door was . birds circled overhead making cawing noises as they flew throughthe sky.

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Click twice on each drop down menu and choose the word that helps best describe the setting for this story.

Explain what each word you have chosen adds to the description of the setting. How does it make the place sound?

Put the words that describe this beach in the pyramid with the best at the top. Explain your choices.

peaceful

shining

jewel

paradise

quiet

lonely

boring

full of life

warm

tropical

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Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story.Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story. What would they do? What would happen to them?

Action

Science Fiction

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Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story. What would they do? What would happen to them?

Describing the way a character speaks, acts and moves can show a lot about them. Put two words that mean the same as the one in the first column in the positive and negative columns.

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Eat

Walk

Run

Talk

devour stomp hunt hiss

race nibble whisper stroll

His face turned to face hers. He pp towards her. “So, my dear, what brings you to my castle?” he and pulled his ssss cape around him. As she moved to answer, his mouth turned into a . He moped to the chair across from her and at her. he into the chair and spoke .

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Cinderella

Wicked Stepmother

Seven Dwarves

Little Red Riding Hood

Big Bad Wolf

Said she was only staying for a week! Did nothing but eat and drink, and took over our house that we’d worked hard for. Good riddance.

See, the thing with little pigs and grandmothers is that they taste so good! We’ve all got to eat and it’s what I do; eat things that taste good! Don’t tell me you’ve never enjoyed a burger!

It was horrible, walking in and seeing my defenceless granny’s leg sticking out of that evil wolf’s mouth! I’ll hunt down every wolf I see.

I told her she couldn’t go to the ball because she is too young to go dancing with boys. Then she ran off without telling anyone where she was going. I was worried sick.

I was always being told what to do and bossed around. My stepmother treated me like a slave so I decided to follow my heart.

Match the point of view with the correct character. How do different characters see the same events differently?

Sort the words below into first person or third person, to show whether a story is written from the point of view of ‘I’ or ‘he/she’.

First person – ‘I’

Plural

our their

mine

theymy myself

her

herself

me

his

himself himwe them

us

ourselves

Singular

Third person – He/She

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Put these sentences in the order they would happen in a story.

“I’m going to get you, boy!”

Ravi turned and saw a wrinkled old man cackling.

But tonight was different.

Throwing himself through the front door, Ravi thought, “Safe at last!”

Suddenly, there was a swish in the air above Ravi’s head as something was swung at him.

He heard a tip tap noise, like a walking stick, behind him.

With his heart pounding, Ravi raced towards his house.

It was a cold, dark, winter’s evening and Ravi was late from school.

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