Read with an adult. Take your time. You can say, point, draw or write your answer.
1 Let's look together
Listen: 'Pip found a seed. Pip put it in a pot. Pip gave it water.'
A story has an order. First Pip found the seed. Then Pip put it in a pot. Last Pip watered it.
First: find a seedNext: put it in a potLast: give it water
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I tell the story with three fingers: find, plant, water. I look back to check the order.
3 Your turn
What did Pip do just before giving the seed water?
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Let's check together
Pip put the seed in a pot.
4 Try it away from the page
Draw the three events on paper cards. Mix them up and retell the story in order.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Shared adult-read text. Focus on sequence. Extend by retelling a familiar complete picture book, not only this short text.
Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.
Enjoy, discuss and retell stories, poems and non-fiction read aloud.
Explain vocabulary, find information, infer and predict with evidence.
Listen, take turns, ask questions and explain ideas aloud.