Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can listen to and discuss a traditional tale.
Key learning points
- Predictions can be made based on illustrations, what has already been read and the front cover
- One person's prediction may be different to another person's
- Traditional tales often start by introducing the characters, such as the three goats and setting the scene
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff teaches the reader to be kind to others
- Traditional tales mostly end happily, such as being able to cross the bridge
Keywords
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Setting - where the story takes place
Plot - what happens in the story
Prediction - making a guess using what we already know
Common misconception
Children may already know the story, so therefore will be unable to make a prediction.
Celebrate if children have heard a version before. Play a game to imagine that memory has gone from their heads and just get them to use the front cover as clues imagining they are detectives.
Teacher tip
Provide lots of opportunities to re-read the whole story to the class. Retell the story how you would like them to write it - past tense, using sequencing language, description and using 'and' to join two ideas. Look at lessons 7 and 8 for examples.
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Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What can we usually find on the front cover of a book?
Q2.An author is ...
Q3.The title of a book is ...
Q4.Put the parts of a story in the correct order.
Q5.Match these words to the correct word class in the following sentence: 'The old bridge wobbled.'
adjective
noun
verb
Q6.__________ is a type of story that is made up or imagined.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is a character?
Q2.Which of these characters are in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
Q3.What is the setting of a story?
Q4.Which of these are settings in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
Q5.When we look at the front cover of a book, what can help us make a prediction?
Q6.What happens to the billy goats at the end of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
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The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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