The Three Little Pigs
Brenda Parkes and Judith Smith

Book Description:

·  Each pig builds their house out of different material and a wolf tries to blow down their houses.

Academic Objective:

·  ELA3R3: The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student recalls explicit facts and infers implicit facts.

Brilliant Star Objective:

·  Conation/Volition: Students will be able to discriminate between intended and unintended actions or behaviors.

Readability Level: 3

Vocabulary: straw, sticks, bricks, chimney,

Introduction: Bring in some straw, some sticks, and some bricks. Ask the students if you build something with each of these items, could you blow it down. Ask the students also if that behavior is intended or unintended.

During Reading: During reading, the students will do a character map on the wolf. They are to describe his behaviors, personality traits, feelings, and write a description of him. On the description of his behavior, the students need to include whether the wolf was blowing down the house intentionally or unintentionally.

Follow-up Activities:

1.  Discuss the students’ character maps on the wolf. Discuss the feelings, personality traits, and his description. Discuss his behaviors and talk about what intentional and unintentional behavior is. Tell the students that the wolf blew down the houses on purpose, that was intentional.

2.  Ask the students several explicit questions about the text: Have many houses did the wolf blow down? Why did the wolf blow the houses down? What was the house made of that the wolf could not blow down? Now ask several implicit questions: Why did the wolf want to go in the houses? Why did the brick not blow down? Why did they put a pot under the chimney and what did it have in it? What do you think the two pigs with no houses will do now?

3.  On a sheet of paper, have the students draw a graphic organizer with two columns, one labeled intended and one labeled unintended. Have the students write a list of intended and unintended behaviors they have done. Then have the students compare the list for similarities and differences.

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