Fantastic Fairy Tales in Year 2!

Our English unit has been all about... Fairy Tales! We were already familiar with many fairy tales so we could identify the key features and think about the vocabulary, characters and story structure that makes them recognisable. We shared lots of ideas including story openers, powerful adjectives to describe and a variety of punctuation.

We shared lots of imaginative ideas, planned our stories, wrote and edited them and finally wrote them up into a proper book! We have really enjoyed being authors! We swapped stories with our partner and gave them feedback. You can read some excerpts from our stories below....

Olive: Once upon a time in a gloomy sea there was a magical mirror, a stunning mermaid, an evil pirate and a mad, magical wizard.

Harley: Then he saw a dead end and an old, rickety cafe.

Heavenly: Did you ever hear the story of the royal move?......They packed their bags quickly before the evil fairy burnt their house down!

Florence: 'The princess was beautiful. The prince on the other hand was not that handsome.

Jamie: He saw a sea monster. He was terrified so he abandoned his boat and paddled away but the sea monster got him!

Phoebe: They became spectacular, unstoppable supervillains!...They laughed deviously.

Elisa: The next day she finally got up but she was not at her house...

Alister: The witch looked angry and cross.

Isaac: Long ago there was a princess and she was beautiful....The princess was so sad so she had an idea...

Bella: In a distant realm a prince wished to go to the real world...

Jacob: Once upon a time there was a mermaid underwater. The water was teal and salty and you could hear the waves splashing.

Henry: The evil witch was tiptoeing...