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Storytelling - The Three Little Pigs
Objectives
To participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
To gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s).
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Writing pencils | Toys and teddies | Props to act out The Three Little Pigs, including twigs and LEGO-type bricks
Big Cat Books | 📄 Sound Flashcards Set 8 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 The Three Little Pigs Storybook | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas | Set 8 Sound Flashcards and Actions
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
story | narrative | sentence | subordination| sounds | sound out | blend |split | flexible | pace | check | Reading Detective | storyteller
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Log in to Big Cat Books.
Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick recognition of sounds.
Phonics - New Learning
Show your student the flashcard ‘ough’. This is a less common way of making the sound ‘or’ but it is found in words we use a lot, such as ‘thought’. Ask your student to write the letters ‘ough’ on their mini whiteboard five times to help them to remember the order of the letters.
Phonics - Blend to Read
thought (3) | brought (4) | nought (3) | ought (2)
Phonics - Split to Spell
fought (3) | thoughtful (6) | bought (3)
Phonics - Extra Support
Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity. Leave the flashcard ‘ough’ where they can see it during the Split to Spell activity as this will help them to remember the order of the letters.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the thoughtful child bought a present for me. Then ask your student to read the caption.
Reading - Read
Read yesterday’s choice from Big Cat Books. Ask your student to read ‘like a storyteller’, making the reading sound smooth and interesting. Tell them to read at a good pace, not too fast and not too slow.
Now choose a new book from Big Cat Books to read together.
Reading - Introduction
Ask your student to read**📄 The Three Little Pigs Storybook** to help them remember the whole story.
Collect some props for acting out The Three Little Pigs and arrange for peers/friends/other adults/students to join the session.
Reading - Main Activity
Help your student to organise their toys and teddies to all play parts in the play. Your student will be the director – the person who tells the characters what to do and moves the teddies and toys into position.
Make sure your student is ready and all the props and toys are also ready. Then together tell the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ together.
Decide which actions and sound effects you will add before you do so. Use 📄 Finger Puppets to help you.
Now retell the story together with different voices and sound effects. Encourage your student to move their teddies and toys and to use the props in response to the different voices and narration. In this way, they will retell the story and act it out using their toys.
Reading - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘You are really thinking hard about where your toys should go and what the characters in the story would do. I love your props and the way you are imagining the toys acting.’
Handwriting and Spelling
Today, ask your student to think of words that sound like (rhyme) with ‘play’ (for example: lay, delay, way). Challenge them to do this in under two minutes.
Make a list of these words using their best handwriting.