YEAR 5 READING: "THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS"

THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

Reasons for choice “The true story of the three little pigs”

¨  It is a fictional book that is linked with a traditional story that children may know, adding it a sense of humour

¨  The story shows a social awareness (the influence of media)

¨  The text presents more varied grammar and complex structures, and new vocabulary adapted to our year 5 students 

READING TARGETS

TEXT LEVEL WORK

Pupils should be able to:

Reading comprehension

¨  Identify typical story themes, e.g. good over evil, weak over strong, trials and forfeits

¨  Identify and discuss main and recurring characters, evaluate their behavior and justify views

Writing composition

¨  Write alternative sequels to traditional  stories using same characters and settings, identifying typical phrases and expressions from story and use these to help structure the writing 

SENTENCE LEVEL WORK

Pupils should be able to:

Grammatical awareness

¨  To understand that some words can be changed in particular ways and others cannot, e.g. changing verb endings, adding comparative endings, pluralisation and that these are important clues for identifying words classes.

Sentence construction and punctuation

¨  To identify the common punctuation marks including commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes, hyphens, speech marks, and to respond to them appropriately when reading

WORD LEVEL WORK

Pupils should be able to:

Read and spell words through:

¨  Segmenting words into phonemes for reading

Spelling strategies

¨  Spell by analogy with other known words, e.g. huffed and snuffed

Spelling conventions and rules

¨  To spell two-syllable words containing double consonants, e.g. little, granny.

¨  To investigate, spell and read words with silent letters, e.g. know, wrong, knocked.

Vocabulary extension

¨  Search for, collect, and define new words from reading and topic word and create ways of categorizing them, eg. Personal dictionaries and glossaries.

¨  Use synonyms and other alternative words/phrases that express same or similar meaning 

ACTIVITIES DEVELOPING THE TARGETS

WORD LEVEL WORK

¨  After reading the story, each child will have to create a glossary in their notebooks with the new words they learn.

¨  In groups, they will have look for and create word banks with words in the text that:

ü  have two syllables and contain double consonants

ü   have silent letters

SENTENCE LEVEL WORK

¨  Read with appropriate intonation and expression, according to the punctuation marks of the text

¨  Classify the verbs from the text -taking special interest to their endings- in present tenses, past tenses, future tenses.

¨  Write new sentences changing the verb tenses (e.g. from past to present, present to future…)

TEXT LEVEL WORK

¨  Each pupil will have to write a short description about the personality of each character: the wolf and the three little pigs

¨  Children will represent a trial, where the wolf have to defend his point of view

¨  In groups, pupils will have to write their own sequel about the three little pigs, using same characters and settings. Then, they will share the story with the whole group