How did we make our "Mr Gumpy's Motor Car" photo story?

In reading we have been learning how to retell a story in our own words. We started off by reading the story "Mr Gumpy's Motor Car" by John Burningham.

Miss Brookshaw then covered up the text in the book with post it notes so that we could only see the pictures. Over the next week we started off our reading lessons by retelling parts of the story while Miss Brookshaw wrote down what we said.

When we had finished writing the whole story Miss Brookshaw cut it up into 21 pieces, and we all got part of the story to illustrate. We used pencils, vivid pens and crayons to draw our pictures, and then we used dye for the backgrounds.



The final step was reading our pieces and recording ourselves. We discussed why it was important to use loud, clear and exciting voices! After we had finished our recording we watched our photo story on the smartboard. Don't forget to leave us a comment on what you thought of our work!!!