BrightWorld
BrightWorld › Topics › English › Story Order and Summarising
Story Order and Summarising practice for Reception – Year 2
English · Reading Comprehension · Early Years (EYFS), Key Stage 1. Understanding what you read: facts, clues, order and the writer’s choices.
What your child will learn
- Listen to a traditional tale, retell it in order and talk about how the characters feel, using new words like “mill” and “flour”.
- Anticipate key events in a traditional tale, retell it in order and use new words like “enormous”.
- Retell a story by putting events in order (beginning, middle, end).
- Sequence events using first, next, then and last.
- Retell key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales by putting the main events in order.
- Recognise the characteristics of fairy tales and traditional tales, including recurring literary language and predictable phrases.
Try some free story order and summarising questions
These are real BrightWorld questions. In the app, every question adapts to your child’s level and comes with hints and worked examples.
Question 1. In Goldilocks, how many bowls of porridge are there?
🥣
🥣
- 5
- 2
- 3
Show the answer
3
Question 2. Which would NOT usually be in a fairy tale?
- a tablet computer
- a castle
- a magic spell
Show the answer
a tablet computer
Question 3. Why did the hen eat the bread with only her chicks?
Little Red Hen found some seeds. “Who will help me plant them?” she asked. “Not I,” said the Cat, the Dog and the Duck. So she planted them herself. The wheat grew tall and golden. She cut it, took it to the mill to be made into flour, and baked a loaf of bread. “Who will help me eat the bread?” she asked. “I will!” said everyone. “You did not help,” said the Hen, “so my chicks and I will eat it.”
Little Red Hen found some seeds. “Who will help me plant them?” she asked. “Not I,” said the Cat, the Dog and the Duck. So she planted them herself. The wheat grew tall and golden. She cut it, took it to the mill to be made into flour, and baked a loaf of bread. “Who will help me eat the bread?” she asked. “I will!” said everyone. “You did not help,” said the Hen, “so my chicks and I will eat it.”
- Because the cat was asleep
- Because the others did not help
- Because the bread was too small
Show the answer
Because the others did not help
How BrightWorld helps with story order and summarising
Children practise story order and summarising at Easy, Medium or Hard, in mixed quizzes, in the Answer Run game and inside story missions. If they get stuck, they get a hint and a worked example; if they’re flying, the questions get harder. Parents see how they’re doing in the parent area.
Practise story order and summarising in BrightWorld
BrightWorld starts at your child’s level with a quick, fun check, then adapts as they learn. No ads, no strangers, and you see what they’ve learned.
Start free
BrightWorld starts at your child’s level with a quick, fun check, then adapts as they learn. No ads, no strangers, and you see what they’ve learned.
Start free
Related topics
Finding Information Inference and Prediction Poems, Stories and Authors