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Y2 Autumn Fiction: Traditional TalesUnit 2SPAG: Write dialogue between two animal characters from a fableTeacher notesEssentialChildren must be very familiar with the fables of The Frog and the Scorpion and The Hare and the Tortoise. Prepare them by letting them listen here: . Use the excellent BBC retelling: .For Day 1: Whole Class Teaching, you will need to record (either as written notes or as audio files) the spoken sentences that children compose for Frog and Scorpion. This is so that, on Day 2 in the whole class teaching, these can be written up as properly punctuated lines of speech.Allow time after Day 2’s activity for children to add pictures of their characters to the Speech Bubble pages, or to decorate their dialogue written using speech marks. SCROLL DOWN FOR TEACHING AND ACTIVITIESY2 Autumn Fiction: Traditional TalesUnit 2 Day 1Perform a dialogue between two animal charactersTeaching Showing children the Frog and Scorpion Story Map (see resources), begin telling the fable once more, e.g. ‘It was morning, and Frog was sitting happily in the grass…’ Pause and ask children to think about what Frog might say at this point in the story. Allow time for discussion and then ask volunteers to come forward and recite the speech they have come up with for Frog: ‘What a beautiful morning’; ‘I might go fishing today’, etc. Note down one good idea for tomorrow.Encourage children to really get into character and to use emphasis, expression and gestures to make what Frog says even more characterful: ‘What an absolutely beautiful morning’, etc.Continue retelling the fable, but pause once again for children to contribute ideas on what Scorpion says when he first appears: ‘Oh, Frog, I am SO miserable – I desperately want to get across the river, but I just can’t swim!, etc.’ Again, note down children’s ideas.Continue and finish retelling the fable, giving opportunities at the appropriate points to come up with dialogue for the two animals as they cross the river.Ask children to imagine that Frog and Scorpion each had a best friend and that, after they drowned, these friends met one another. Explain that today children will be creating a short conversation between these two animals, which they will perform to the rest of the class later.Activity: Compose the dialogue between two animal friends of Frog and ScorpionObjectives: Composition 2: (a) consider what they are going to write before beginning by: planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about. Spoken Language: (a) listen and respond appropriately to adults and peers (d) articulate and justify opinions (f) maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations (k) consider and evaluate different viewpointsYou will need: AnimalsChildren work in ability-related pairsActivityUsing Animals (see resources) if necessary, pairs decide on two animal friends, one for Frog and one for Scorpion.Imagining that they are these friends, children then brainstorm what the animals might have said to each other. They consider how each friend would be feeling, and what sort of remarks each might make.When they have composed their dialogue, children role play the animals’ conversation, getting lots of expression into how they are speaking.Plenary: Ask for volunteer pairs to share their dialogue with the class. Children begin by explaining which animal they are, and whose friend they were, before enacting their conversation. Praise really expressive dialogue and bold vocabulary choices. Finish by asking children to read out the lines on Who said that? (see resources), explaining that each is a line spoken by a character in The Hare and the Tortoise. Can others guess who is saying which line? How can you tell?Outcomes:I can compose dialogue for characters in a fable I knowWith a partner, I can perform dialogue in front of the classY2 Autumn Fiction: Traditional TalesUnit 2 Day 2Write a dialogue between two animal charactersTeaching Begin by reviewing the dialogue children created yesterday for Frog and Scorpion’s friends. Hear further examples from around the class. Explain that today children will write dialogue on paper and that, in order to get ready, you want them to think carefully about capital letters and punctuation.Return to the fable of The Frog and the Scorpion, and the brief speech you recorded for Frog at the story’s opening: What an absolutely beautiful morning!Model writing this inside a speech bubble. Draw children’s attention to the initial capital. Look at the sentence-end punctuation, discussing whether you will use a full stop or an exclamation mark for extra emphasis.Repeat for the speech you recorded for Scorpion, but this time forget to use an initial capital or any sentence-end punctuation. What have I done wrong here?Send most children off to begin their writing but keep more confident writers with you. Using your dialogue between Frog and Scorpion as they cross the river, teach this group how to punctuate speech using speech marks. Stress that the 66 and 99 marks contain all the words we would actually hear if we were listening to the conversation. Explore how the narration (…said Frog, etc.) lies outside the speech marks, as we would not hear those words being spoken.Look at synonyms for said: begged, cried, asked, replied, etc.Activity: Write out the dialogue between Frog and Scorpion’s animal friends Objectives: Composition 2: (c) consider what they are going to write before beginning by encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence. Grammar 1: (a) develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly. 2: (f) learn how to use some features of written Standard English.You will need: Speech Bubbles (see resources); lined paperChildren work in the same pairs as yesterdayActivityUsing enlarged copies of Speech Bubbles, children write out the dialogue between the two friends of Frog and Scorpion’s that they created yesterday. They use initial capital letters for each sentence and provide appropriate sentence-end punctuation.Some less confident pairs do as above, but work in a group with adult support.When ready, more confident writers use lined paper to record their dialogue as speech-marked, narrated sentences.Later, children can add pictures of the speaking animals below their speech bubbles, or can decorate their narrated dialogue.Plenary: Enjoy chn’s finished speech bubble sheets and pages of dialogue. Finish by role-playing Scorpion’s closing observation: It’s just how I am. 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