Billy Goats Gruff: what a classic! You can share this brilliant story with your pupils whilst honing their storytelling skills with Hope Education’s Travelling Tales: Billy Goats Gruff resource. Travelling Tales sacks are one-stop shops for all your storytelling lesson needs. In this Travelling Tales, the cross-curricular resources are centred around the Alison Edgson re-telling of the classic fairy tale, Billy Goats Gruff.
Children can re-tell the story of Billy Goats Gruff using the wooden character set and story mat included in this Travelling Tales story sack. You can also plan a series of cross-curricular storytelling lessons using the game and troll storybook included in this sack of quality resources.
- Inject excitement in your reading lessons using this sack of quality storytelling resources.
- Save your voice and let an expert tell the story with the audio book CD included.
- Encourage your learners to make connections between texts by reading The Troll, another storybook, to your class.
What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?
1 x copy of Billy Goats Gruff
1 x fiction book**
1 x set of wooden characters**
1 x story mat**
1 x animal-themed game**
1 x Teacher Guide**
Contents may vary from description due to availability
**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Alison Edgson or Child’s Play (International) Ltd.
- Quality texts from well known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
- Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories
- Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language
- Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information
- The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story
- Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
- Provide wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
- Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
- Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
- Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain roles of characters in the stories.
- Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
- Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.