- Create and describe another natural blanket in the writer’s style
- Re-write the ending with a different successful stranger
- Create your own traditional story based upon the Princess’s Blankets, keeping the pattern of 4.
- Write the ending from more than one different point of view - princess, king, stranger, musician.
- Newspaper report about the catastrophic events that are happening in in the princess’ kingdom
- Newspaper report with bias - from unsuccessful stranger’s point of view or princess’ point of view
- Petition to king to stop depleting the earth of all its resources
- Letter to an agony aunt in role as the princess
- Reply to letter in role as agony aunt
- Dialogue added to scenes
- Play script of key scene/s
/ Reading
- Book talk: Make predictions from cover.
- Book talk: What type of text could it be? What do we know already about this text type?
- Create Venn diagram to compare/contrast with known traditional tales
- Book talk: find key narrative language and list
- Book talk: which traditional stories do you know that have suitors seeking to marry a princess?
- Hot seat the princess, the king and queen, the stranger and the musician and make role on the wall. Note their thoughts, reactions and opinions of each other.
- Visualise and draw blanket from description read aloud
- Writer talk: Look at the vocabulary and language used to describe the blankets. Explore under headings -felt, woven in, smelled of, in its borders, embroidered with, patterned with. What is the impact?
- Writer talk: How has the writer achieved this impact? Which grammatical features has she used?
- Writer talk: How has the writer shown the reader how the princess feels?
Hook
- Watch clip from Frozen where Anna is frozen and Elsa understands that love will melt the ice she has created
Capturing Ideas
- Create grid and note problems created by the blankets. Which resources were used and what were the consequences?
- Compare descriptions of different blankets, noting word choice and grammatical features used.
- Develop ideas for a new blanket. What would the problems be? Which resources used and what would the consequences be? What would the princess’ reaction be?
- Develop descriptive language for new blanket under heading already used. Identify nouns, verbs. Develop to expanded noun phrases, adverbials, simile, metaphor.
- Create new character to solve problem
- Role play scenes with new character
- Expanded noun phrases with precise word choices
- Commas to clarify meaning, to add extra information in detailed sentences
- Complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause and embedding ing and ed non-finite subordinate clauses
- Choice and control of specific language features to create an effect