Traditional Tales: Goldilocks

This series of lessons centres around Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Your class will retell the traditional tale, use their phonic knowledge to write labels and captions, plan, write and edit their own versions of the story. The included resources support your class to become familiar with the traditional tale and confident in their ability to write their own versions.

This downloadable planning pack of five lessons is tailored to the Year 1 curriculum and designed to engage your children and ignite their story-writing skills. Each lesson comes with detailed planning, slideshows for teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

 

Retelling the Tale

The first lesson in this Goldilocks and the Three Bears series of English lessons challenges your class to retell the traditional tale. After listening to the story and joining in with the refrains your class will use a Goldilocks and the Three Bears story map and story props to aid them in their storytelling skills.

This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Writing Captions

The second lesson in this Goldilocks series builds on your children's knowledge of the story. Your class will fill in the gaps in the lines from the story and have the option of attempting the additional challenge of ordering the story. This lesson concludes by asking the children to proofread a letter Goldilocks wants to send to the three bears.

This downloadable lesson comes with a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Planning Stories

The third lesson in this series of Goldilocks English lessons challenges your class to use the structure of the story to write their own. Your class will be shown the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story separated into four parts. Then they will be supported to change elements of the story as they plan their stories.

This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Writing Stories

The fourth lesson in this Goldilocks series sees your class using their plans to write their own versions of the Goldilocks story. Your class will be introduced to synonym continuums and start to think about making appropriate choices when selecting adjectives in their writing.

This downloadable lesson comes with a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation, and printable teaching resources.

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Editing and Improving

The final Goldilocks and the Three Bears lesson challenges your class to edit and improve their stories. They will look for spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes in their writing as well as use synonym continuums to help them select more appropriate adjectives in their writing.

This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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