Writing about characters, setting and plot: '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 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

Correct the spelling of the word in bold in this sentence: The troll **woz** furious.

Correct the spelling and punctuation of the word in bold in this sentence: **hte** river was deep.

Identify the adjective in this sentence: The hideous troll howled.

a naming word of a person, place or thing

a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence

Correct the spelling of the word in bold: There was a **wooden** bridge.

Finish this sentence. All sentences begin with a ...

Correct the spelling of the word in bold. He **haz** sharp teeth.

Which of these is a sentence that makes complete sense?

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

Lesson outcome