Key Stage One : English : Reading : Comprehension : Three Billy Goats Gruff


This English reading teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and answer a range of comprehension questions about the structure and content of a traditional story. The class can write what might happen to the characters in the original story when completing the same narrative in a different setting.

Download this teaching pack including a shared reading text, activity worksheets and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and answer a range of comprehension questions about the structure and content of a traditional story

This teaching pack includes reading comprehension materials to teach the class to read and answer questions about the content of a traditional story. There are activities for shared, independent and group learning.

Learning Objectives

Becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling traditional tales. Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify the sequence of events in a traditional take. I can suggest why and how different things happened in a story.

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Shared reading text to help the children describe the structure and content of a traditional story by identifying the sequence of events and their impact on the narrative

Three Billy Goats Gruff Questions

Activity to help the children answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of a traditional story with animals as the main characters

Three Billy Goats Gruff Sentences (support)

Activity to help the children complete different sentences showing the content of a traditional story to record the sequence of the main narrative events

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Interactive activity to help the children read and discuss the format and content of a traditional story by identifying the sequence of events and their impact on the narrative

Download this teaching pack including an assembly plan, teaching activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to read and answer a range of comprehension questions about the structure and content of a traditional story

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