Year 1 - English
Writing about characters, setting and plot: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
'The Three Billy Goats Gruff': reading and writing
Study Hub
Study Guides
This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
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.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to write part of a story.
Key Notes
- Rehearsing a sentence out loud before writing it helps us to remember it
- Reading a sentence back after writing helps to check it makes sense
- Every sentence must start with a capital letter and end with a full stop
- Narrating a story means the writer is saying what happens
- Word banks help to find keywords to include in writing
Vocabulary To Learn
- simple sentence: a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense
- capital letter: the upper case formation of a letter
- full stop: a punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence
- adjective: describes a noun
- sequence: following the order in which a series of events happened
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Children may struggle to generate individual sentences per event.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Rehearsing a sentence out loud before writing it helps us to remember it. Reading a sentence back after writing helps to check it makes sense.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'simple sentence'
a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Children may struggle to generate individual sentences per event. Correction: Refer to the story mountain that the children made in a previous lesson and make that available. When retelling and reading the story, refer back to the model story mountain to refer to those points. Explain that each picture is one sentence.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Describing the goats in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' Study Guide
- Describing the troll in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' Study Guide
- Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' Study Guide
- Introduction to traditional tales Study Guide
- Reading and responding to 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' Study Guide
- Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' Study Guide
- Writing the end of the story: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' Study Guide
Browse all guides in the Year 1 English guide library.