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

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Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

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'

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

only words that are at the beginning of a sentence

a naming word for people, places and things

What is the correct and complete definition of a noun?

a naming word for people, places or things

a naming word for a specific person, place or thing

Which sequencing word is often used at the end of a story?

Which is the correctly punctuated sentence? 

Which adjectives would you choose to best describe the meadow at the beginning of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?

Which adjective best describes the troll?

Which of these characters knocks the troll into the river?

Which is the only sentence that is correct as it makes sense?

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

Lesson outcome