Teach pupils in KS2 to read, analyse and write their own fables using this resource pack. The pack is centred on two WAGOLL model texts – ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ and ‘The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse’.
Pupils will read and annotate the models to identify the structure, grammar and punctuation used in fables. They will then create their own fables, either retelling the stories closely or adapting elements, such as the lesson learned or the characters’ actions.
What the pack contains
Model texts – The North Wind and the Sun and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
These WAGOLLs demonstrate all the features of classic fables: they usually use animals as characters with opposite traits, follow a traditional story structure – beginning, build-up, problem, resolution, ending – and convey a moral lesson. Pupils can identify the use of past tense, inverted commas to punctuate speech, apostrophes to indicate possession, adverbials to link ideas and antonyms to add variety to the language.
Fable writing sheet
There are two versions for lower and upper KS2. The LKS2 version includes examples of inverted commas and apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession. The UKS2 version contains examples of adverbials to link ideas and antonyms. Both provide success criteria to support pupils’ writing.
Fable image cards
These cards help pupils orally retell the stories, sequence events and plan their own versions.
Fable planning sheet
This worksheet allows pupils to organise their stories, decide on characters, plot events and include the moral lesson.
Writing paper
The themed PDF sheet includes blank pages for final drafts, allowing pupils to present their work neatly and creatively.
How to use the resource in class
You can use this pack in English lessons to develop narrative writing or alongside topic work on traditional tales.
Years 3 and 4 focus on planning writing by discussing similar texts, using direct speech, fronted adverbials and possessive apostrophes.
Years 5 and 6 focus on identifying the audience and purpose, linking ideas across paragraphs with adverbials and using antonyms to enrich meaning.
By the end, pupils will produce structured and imaginative fables that reflect the style, structure and features of the WAGOLLs.