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Use this storyboard for planning book trailers.

Use the photos of Penshaw Hill in your Lambton Worm book trailer or in your work on the legend of the Lambton Worm.

Find out why the River Thames is bendy and the River Glyme shaped like a dog.

Place names can reveal secrets about a place and help spark children’s imaginations too. Could these be a clue to a new ‘legend’?

Use this resource to help you discuss the key features of a myth and a legend?  

Everything you need to know about our friend the comma whilst also learning about fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses and commas in direct speech.

Use these story cards to give children some starting points when writing myths.

A short legend by Tony Wilson. Ask the children to listen to the language used. What do they notice?

Can the children sequence the story events in the right order?

Use these story cards to give children some starting points when writing their own legends.

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