Describing the troll in '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 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

Complete the following sentence: 'An __________ describes a noun.'

Select the adjectives that describe the troll's personality.

Select the adjectives that describe the troll's appearance.

Which sentence uses the correct punctuation?

A naming word for people, places and things.

Which is the correct definition of a noun?

Common nouns always need a capital letter.

Common nouns do not need to start with a capital letter.

Which statements about common nouns are correct?

Match the noun types (person, place and thing) to the correct examples.

Which is the correct definition of an adjective?

Identify the adjective in the following sentence: 'The kind teacher smiled.'

Describing the troll in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Lesson outcome