🎭 Explorers: Our Adventure Story

A fully interactive A2.1 Kids writing lesson that launches the Explorer Club's Adventure Showcase project by teaching children to plan a story. Students begin with four warm-up questions about favourite stories, then work through a three-block Story Mountain project toolkit: The Four Parts of a Story (a setup → problem → climax → resolution table showing what each part does), Tell It in the Past (recycling the whole past-tense course — was/were, regular -ed verbs and irregular heroes, with a 12+ past-verbs target), and Plan Your Team Story (a planning table for characters, setting, feelings and past verbs). Ten adventure-and-story words (adventure, character, setting, problem, plan, suddenly, cave, treasure, brave, safe) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get detailed review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style model story plan, 'The Lost Map', in which Team Compass build an island adventure across the four Story Mountain stages, using past tense, sequencers and feelings in natural context, with key words highlighted on hover. Practice includes 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions (character, setting, took, were, walked, found, finally, adventure) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five pitch prompts and a model team pitch dialogue; a guided 25-45 word writing task with a four-point Story Mountain checklist (setup, problem, climax, resolution) and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixing story structure, past tense and two reading-comprehension questions, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.