how people or characters show their feelings

Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

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Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Introduction to traditional tales

Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Describing the troll in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Describing the goats in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Writing about characters, setting and plot: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Writing the end of the story: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

In 'The Magic Porridge Pot', pupils will build on their ability to retell traditional tales and application of this to writing simple sentences using some modelled sequencing language.

In 'A Superhero Like You!', children learnt to write captions and short sentences including adjectives. In this unit, pupils will build on this by applying their sentences to a narrative form. 

In this unit, pupils explore traditional tales, sharing their preferences and focusing on 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. They orally retell a story using sequencing language. They also compose sentences including adjectives to describe the characters in the story. Finally, pupils write the story.

'The Three Billy Goats Gruff': reading and writing

What are the settings from the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?

Which of these is a character from 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?

Choose an adjective to describe how the little billy goat feels when the troll appears.

When the big billy goat charges at the troll, he feels __________. Choose an adjective to complete the sentence.

They stayed in the dry, brown meadow forever.

What are some of the actions that the goats did?

Which adjective describes how the billy goats are feeling at the end of the story?

Match the word to the word class from this sentence: The old bridge rattled noisily.

How are the goats feeling at the start of the story?

The billy goats are fed up of eating dry, brown grass.

The billy goats take it in turns to cross the bridge where the mean troll lives.

The billy goats get to the lush, green meadow and enjoy eating the grass.

Starter Quiz

What is a character?