making a guess using what we already know

Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

English

Introduction to traditional tales

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

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

Which of these characters are in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?

Which of these are settings in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?

When we look at the front cover of a book, what can help us make a prediction?

They cannot cross the bridge so they stay in the brown meadow.

They cross the bridge and eat in the grassy meadow.

What happens to the billy goats at the end of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?

What can we usually find on the front cover of a book?

Put the parts of a story in the correct order.

Match these words to the correct word class in the following sentence: 'The old bridge wobbled.'

__________ is a type of story that is made up or imagined. 

Starter Quiz

What can we usually find on the front cover of a book?