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Year 1
Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can listen to and discuss a traditional tale.
New
New
Year 1
Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
I can listen to and discuss a traditional tale.
Lesson details
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
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.
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
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.
Teacher tip
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6 Questions
Q1.
What can we usually find on the front cover of a book?
video
numbers
Q2.
An author is ...
where the story happens.
a person or animal in the story.
the person who has drawn the pictures.
Q3.
The title of a book is ...
the main event in the story.
where the story happens.
the person who has written the book.
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.
A poem
Non-fiction
An author
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6 Questions
Q1.
What is a character?
where the story takes place
what happens in the story
Q2.
Which of these characters are in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
bears
dragon
Q3.
What is the setting of a story?
what happens in a story
the people or animals in the story
Q4.
Which of these are settings in the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
a forest
a castle
Q5.
When we look at the front cover of a book, what can help us make a prediction?
author
illustrator
Q6.
What happens to the billy goats at the end of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
They become friends with the troll.
They cannot cross the bridge so they stay in the brown meadow.
They fall into the river.
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