Comparing two stories

In Term 2 we have been reading a variety of traditional tales from around the world. Close to the end of the term we read "Rainbow Bird," which is an Australian folk tale, and "How Rabbit stole the Fire," a North American story. We were looking for similarities and differences between the two stories, so that we could compare them. To help us organise our thoughts we used a SOLO compare map to record the ideas that we brainstormed. We found out that both stories have FIRE in them! Here are some of the other similarities and differences that we noticed:

The Paper Bag Princess Storyboards

In Term 2 we read a big book called "The Paper Bag Princess." We were learning how to retell a story in our own words and be engaging storytellers by using lots of expression and interesting words. We made these storyboards so that we could retell the story to other people. First of all we made some maps of the different settings in the story. We used pencil, crayon, vivid and dye. Next we used felt tips to draw the characters on cardboard, and then cut them out. There are three characters in the story - Princess Elizabeth, Prince Ronald and the dragon. We ended up making two Princess Elizabeths - one wearing beautiful clothes, and the other in a paper bag! We stuck the characters onto the maps with blu-tack, so that we are able to move them around as we tell the story. Finally we added some captions with key words and important events in the story. These act as prompts if we get stuck! We all had a go at retelling "The Paper Bag Princess" using the storyboards to a partner in the class, and then our buddies from Year 5 came to visit us and we were able to retell the story to them too. Some of us have been over to the New Entrants class already to tell them the story, and some more of us will also go next term. Here are a few examples of the storyboards we created.