Imagining you are the characters: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can imagine that I am a character in the story.
Key learning points
- Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story
- Describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of a story.
- Facial expressions and movements help the audience understand what is happening, such as fear from the goat
- There are different ways to express emotions. Facial expressions and actions help us to show feelings and emotions.
- The feelings we have can result in actions.
Keywords
Character - a person or an animal in a story
Feeling - an emotion
Emotion - feeling or mood
Expression - how people or characters show their feelings
Action - something that is done
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to generate vocabulary to explain the expressions and movements.
The purpose of learning cycle 1 is to provide the children with vocabulary. Narrate how the children are feeling in their freeze-frames and get them to repeat. For example, you may say 'You look horrified.' and the children repeat 'We are horrified'.
Teacher tip
If you are in a school or working with a large group of pupils, assign different roles to the children to act out the entire story. Initially, they should use only facial expressions and movements. Then, introduce a narrator to retell the story.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is a character?
Q2.Match the word to the word class from this sentence: The old bridge rattled noisily.
adjective
noun
verb
adverb
Q3.Which adjectives describe the troll?
Q4.How are the goats feeling at the start of the story?
Q5.Match the word to its definition.
what happens in the story
where a story takes place
a person or animal in a story
Q6.Order the main events in the story.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What are the settings from the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
Q2.Which of these is a character from 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?
Q3.Choose an adjective to describe how the little billy goat feels when the troll appears.
Q4.When the big billy goat charges at the troll, he feels __________. Choose an adjective to complete the sentence.
Q5.What are some of the actions that the goats did?
Q6.Which adjective describes how the billy goats are feeling at the end of the story?
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