Literacy: putting a story in sequence

We started by looking at five pictures that tell a story. Our first activity was to sort the pictures into the correct sequence. They tell the story of two boys who go fishing. A storm blows up and they are in danger of drowning. Fortunately a fishing boat comes to help them, and at the end the boys are safe and dry, being looked after by the fishermen.

Next we began to write the story as a piece of shared writing. We put up our hands and added ideas. Then we worked together to make the ideas into sentences. We tried to vary our sentence structure to make the story more fun to read.

The first picture shows the boys setting out on their fishing trip. The weather is calm. We described the setting and introduced the characters. We also created suspense, by adding a sentence that suggests something bad is going to happen. Can you find the sentence that creates suspense?

In the second picture we see the wind beginning to blow, bowing the tree and making the waves bigger. The boys are still unaware of the danger. We will complete our story next week.