Year 1 · English · Reading
Understanding stories
Talk and answer questions about the characters, setting and events of stories we read together.
Everything for this topic in one place
- 3D lesson: Understanding stories — Find the characters and the setting, put a story in order, use clues to predict what happens next and answer who, where and when questions.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 1 (Years 0–3), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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