Year 2 Grandad's Island': book club worksheet

“Places and people in stories” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 English unit “Grandad's Island': book club”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 34 to 35 of the year, 3 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Places and people in stories

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can find the character, setting and plot, and see a story can have many settings.

A Look back3 min

1.
Read the sounds in the chain. Circle the word they make.
boatbatbait
2.
Write each word in the right column.
dogruntreejump
Naming words Action words
3.
Add -ing to jump. Circle the right word.
jumpingjumppingjumpd

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali and Gran sit in the garden. Then they climb into a little boat and sail to a rocky island.

A sunny back garden with a wooden shed and a tall oak tree

Watch me

The story starts in the garden.

Then it moves to a boat on the water.

Last, it reaches an island. The story has three settings.

Now you

1.
Priya's story starts at home. Then it moves to a farm. Circle the second setting.
homefarmschool

C Your turn8 min

Read each short story. Answer the question about it.

1.
Ava's story happens in a busy town. Circle the setting.
Avaa busy townbored
2.
Sort these words from a story about a fox.
Fen the foxa dark forestMum foxa sandy den
Character Setting
3.
Fen the fox leaves home for an adventure. Number the events from first to last.
1. The fox reaches a sunny meadow.
2. The fox sleeps at home.
3. The fox finds a tunnel under the hedge.
4.
Leo wakes in his bed. Then he walks down to a quiet beach. Does this story have one setting or more than one? Circle your answer.
one settingmore than one setting

Say it out loud: Which words tell you where the story is? Which words tell you who is in it?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “Mia's story starts in the kitchen. Stories have one setting, so it can't go to the beach.”

1.
Explain to Kit why he is wrong. Use one sentence.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Make up a story with two different settings. Write one sentence for each place. Tell your grown-up the story.

How did it feel?

Think about how Ali felt at the end of his story. Did the place change how he felt?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Places and people in stories · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. boat If they circled bat, the oa has been read as a short a. Say the oa sound slowly, as in goat, then blend the three sounds.

2. Action words: run, jump · Naming words: dog, tree If jump went with naming words, ask: what can you do with your legs? Action words tell us what someone or something does.

3. jumping If they circled jumpping, they doubled the p. Jump already has two letters after its vowel, so just add -ing.

B

1. farm If they circled home, they picked the first setting. Ask: where does the story go after home?

C

1. a busy town If they circled Ava, that is the character. The setting is the place where the story happens.

2. Setting: a dark forest, a sandy den · Character: Fen the fox, Mum fox If a place went in the character column, ask: is this a person or an animal, or is it somewhere the story goes?

3. 1 The fox sleeps at home. · 2 The fox finds a tunnel under the hedge. · 3 The fox reaches a sunny meadow. If the meadow came first, ask: how does the fox get to the meadow? Plot events happen one after another.

4. more than one setting If they circled one setting, they only looked at the first place. Ask: where does Leo go next?

D

1. Look for: Says that a story can visit several places, so Mia's story can go to the beach. If they only repeat that Kit is wrong, ask: how many places does Mia visit in the story? Then point out that the setting can change.

E

1. Look for: A short story with at least one character, two different places named in order, and a sentence for each place.

Words to use

Say“Where does the story start? Where does it go next? Which place is it in now?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away, or say that a story only has one place.”

After the sheet

Pick a bedtime story at home and count the places it visits. Write each place on a card, lay them in order, and talk about how the character felt in each one.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

2 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Words that paint pictures(with a plan)
The big idea of family(with a plan)

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