Journey Stories, Humphry’s Pebbles - KS1 Text Types: Writing Planners and Model Texts

Explore a journey story in KS1 using this text type resource pack. Young writers will learn a simple story structure by reading the model text ‘Humphry’s Pebbles’ - a short journey story where a young penguin goes in search of a new pebble to add to his collection. This simple narrative can be retold by pupils in KS1, acting out ideas to help sequence the story. The resources are based on a model text, with planning sheets to support pupils to retell or write their own version of a warning tale.

There are also opportunities to teach or revisit how apostrophes are used to show possession, and how sentences can be joined using the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘but’.

This WAGOLL journey story resource pack includes:

• Model text: Humphry’s Pebbles - this model text is a simple journey tale where a character goes on a journey to find a new pebble. The model text can be used to learn the structure of a journey tale. A list of features to look for is included at the bottom of the page.
• Journey story writing sheet - this contains a success criteria list as well as information on how apostrophes are used to show singular possession and how the coordinating conjunctions ‘and’ or ‘but’ can be used.
• Story idea cards - pupils can use the image cards to help orally tell stories, choosing an object that a character might go on a journey to collect.
• Journey story planning sheet - this worksheet allows pupils to plan their own stories, sequencing events for their stories.
• Writing paper - the themed writing paper can be used for pupils to present their work.

National Curriculum English programme of study links:

Year 1

• Pupils should be taught to write sentences by saying out loud what they are going to write about
• Pupils should be taught to write sentences by composing sentences orally before writing
• Pupils should be taught to write sentences by sequencing stories to form short narratives
• Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in Appendix 2 by ... joining words and joining clauses using and

Year 2

• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by writing narratives ...
• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by considering what they are going to write before beginning by planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by writing down ideas and / or key words, including new vocabulary
• Pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of the concepts set out in Appendix 2 by learning how to use ... apostrophes for the possessive (singular)
• Pupils should be taught to learn how to use ... co-ordination (using or, and, or but)

This resource is part of the WAGOLL: text types writing packs collection.
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• Model text: Humphry's Pebbles
• Journey story writing sheet
• Story idea cards
• Journey story planning sheet
• Writing paper