Describing the goats in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

English

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'

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

Match the adjectives that describe the goat’s appearance and personality.

Which adjectives best describe the smallest billy goat?

Where does an adjective often come in a sentence?

Tick the adjectives that describe the largest billy goat’s personality.

Tick the adjectives that describe the largest goat’s appearance.

Which sentence makes complete sense and is punctuated correctly?

a naming word for people, places and things

a naming word that always a capital letter

Identify the noun in this sentence: The old bridge wobbled.

a naming word that always has a capital letter

Identify the adjective in this sentence: The greedy troll growled.

Match these words with the correct definition.

Which word in this sentence is an adjective: The mean troll roared.

Starter Quiz

What is a noun?