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This Little Piggy

This week the first grade team at our school is doing our Three Little Pigs book study.  We check out every version of The Three Little Pigs that we can get our dark chocolate loving hands on, and then each day we read one or two versions as we complete the activities in the unit. The students LOVE the familiarity of the story (hello schema!) and they get such a kick out of hearing other versions. It is the perfect way to teach perspective as there are many stories out there told from a different perspective than that of the poor innocent piggies.  (We all know that those piggies are haters)

I found the most adorable graphics from melonheadz illustrating (see her button below to go check her out) of the piggies so I was inspired to make our mini-unit the way I want it to be!  I can’t wait to teach this unit this week!  My daughter says the wolf I made looks like a cat…let’s move on shall we? 

The Unit Includes Graphic Organizers and Printables for responding to The Three Little Pigs Stories as well as class charts and discussions.

Topics Include:
The Story Elements- both beginner and independent learners versions (I will do both)
Story Sequence-They can never get enough practice on this one!
Character Analysis (big bad wolf) How they felt about the wolf before they knew the REAL STORY
Building Basic Sentences Can-Have-Are
Chart Labels
& an Art Project

Once the students finish their work for the week we will make either the wolf (cat) or the pig to hold their best reading response and put it on our bulletin board!  It will be my new Friday Fix!  {Hollla!}

Be sure to check out melonheadzillustrating!  
You will LOVE it!  She is very teacher friendly too!  
Here’s a freebie from my unit!!! {click the pic}
Students just cut out the pictures along the bottom of this printable and place them where they 
belong after you make an uber cute class chart about the story elements! There are two wolves because he is a main character as well as the problem of the story.  Also the setting is the woods and the solution is the brick house.  I probably didn’t need to tell you that, but being a first grade teacher, I just can’t help myself.  I am pretty sure you understand…  😉
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    1. OMG!!!!! Blogger is letting me comment!!! I'd better hurry before it kicks me off or our or just hangs up!!! LOVE melonheadz!!! I have been following her for a while!!! Super love the adorable unit you made!!! Tho cute!!!

      Have a happy Sunday buddy:)

      4th Grade Frolics

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    3. This unit looks so great! I wish we did Fairy Tales or Traditional Literature like this but we don't because it doesn't go with our reading series. At the end of the year we do have a couple of weeks where we can do what we want though because the series is done so perhaps I could use this! I'll have to check out melonheadz thanks for the suggestion!
      Rambling About Reading

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    8. I am about to begin this unit myself. Yay! I love using the different versions, but making that darn whole class story map is a killer for my kids. It seems like we can't do it after we read the story because it is too much sitting for them. It just takes forever, and is the one part of this unit I dread. I have worked on using pictures only or just a little writing or little bits per day, but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong here. It still takes forever. I go into other classrooms and see these lovely story maps, and I wonder how they make it work for them!! Can you give me any advice?

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    9. I hope my advice helps… I have a very immature class too. I make the chart before the lesson. I show it to them before I read and refer to it as I read. Thankfully the story is not long. Then we do a brain break up on our feet. After they have moved and wiggled we sit back down and get to the chart. We write just the basics on to the chart and I send them off to show me what they know with what ever we are focusing on that day.

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    10. Wahoo! I can comment too! I have had a hard time commenting on your blog and a few others lately…I thought maybe you were blocking me! hahahaha

      Have you read The Three Javelinas? Being a Texas girl myself it is one of my favorite versions! I love this unit! SO much fun!

      BTW- I would love for you to come check out my Vowel Munchers.

      You are great and if Farley says you are a little cray cray than I love you even more! I am a little cray cray myself! =)

      Heather
      Heather's Heart

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      • I read any and every version I can find. I usually find a couple new ones each year so i pick the best ones. There's at least one from the wolf's perspective. But I think maybe Barbara found another for me!

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    17. This just in – I'm TOTALLY mixing up my fables . . . Wolf, Wolf is the boy who cried Wolf and NOT the three little pigs . . . ya think that's why there's LITTLE mention about those pigs? Doy . . . sorry about that . . . better call it a day, eh? Have a fantastic week!!!

      Barbara

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    18. I did this at the beginning of the year to reinforce the idea of text to text connections. Some of my students even brought in different versions that they own. I had The Three Little Javelinas (sp?), The Three Little Dassies, and The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark. Scholastic has a version I got at our book fair: The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot. They LOVED that one! Somewhere I downloaded from a blog a comparison paper where they compared all the houses from two books and then picked their favorite of the six. They loved doing that one!

      Thanks for the freebie!

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    19. Reagan your work is amazing!

      I have a technical question if you don't mind. How did you upload the freebie pdf file of the three little pigs? I have a couple of alphabet self assessment pages that I would like to upload to my blog to share with other teachers.

      Thanks a lot!

      Amelia

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