KS2 National Curriculum:

✓ Predicting plot events based on character behaviour
✓ Identifying how characters are portrayed through actions and speech
✓ Using group roles to structure discussion and reflection
✓ Writing in response to the text with a focus on clarity and justification

Activities in this lesson include reading the first part of The Emperor’s New Clothes, deciding what will happen next, reading the end of the story, discussing the theme, looking at the four main ways in which characters in stories are described then describing the emperor using these four ways.

There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on collaboration with a five-minute activity based on this extract.