The Three
Billy Goats Gruff
Crossword
1
Story knowledge
Word Puzzle
2
3
4
5–6
14
Make a Story Book
15
What’s the Story?
16–17
Sentence strips
7
Letter forms
Alphabet Bridge
Speech Bubbles 2
Template for writing
Templates for writing
Alphabet Dot-to-Dot
13
Writing direct speech
Rhyming word cloze
Goat/Troll Thoughts
Speech Bubbles 1
Matching direct speech to speakers
Word building
Make a Rhyme
12
Antonyms & synonyms activity
Word recognition
Word Family Wheel
Similar and Different
The Story
18–20
Text from the on-screen story
8
My Record Sheet
21
Alphabetical order
Writing Cards
9–10
Class Record Sheet
Springboards for writing
Opposites
11
Matching antonyms to pictures
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Crossword
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Name
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M
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Across
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Down
The Billy Goats Gruff
were h_____. They didn’t
have enough food.
2.
U____ is the opposite
of over.
3.
There were three g____.
6.
“Please don’t eat m_.”
4.
Rhymes with seal: ____.
7.
The t____ was mean
and hungry.
5.
“Who’s that crossing my
bridge?” r_____ the troll.
8.
Rhymes with more: __.
6.
The g____ on the troll’s
hill was green.
The goats wanted
m___ grass.
9.
T___ trap.
11.
Big Billy Goat Gruff was
a different s___ to Little
Billy Goat Gruff.
14.
Middle-sized Billy Goat
Gruff was o_ the bridge.
1.
10.
12.
B__ Billy Goat Gruff
butted the troll.
13.
The troll couldn’t d_
what he wanted.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Use with The Story.
Word Puzzle
Name
Find these words in the puzzle. Circle each word when
you find it. Put a ✔ next to the word in the list.
day
green
grass ✔
plenty
he
eat
horns
mind
splash
food ✔
mean
plan
sweet
trap
up
j
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s
m e
a
t
h e
c
g
r
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x
p z
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b
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Word Family Wheel
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Use with Word Wall.
Make a Rhyme
Name
Choose and write the words you need.
Then draw a picture for each rhyme
I am rowing in my
.
It should not sink –
it’s meant to
!
boat, float, goat, moat
It’s such a warm
and sunny
.
We can go outside to
.
day, say, may, play
?
Can you see that funny
He is wearing my pink
!
moat, goat, boat, coat
“I’m hungry. I would
like a
.”
“Here’s some food
from my back
.”
snack, pack, tack, crack
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Goat Thoughts
Fold this page on the line marked Fold.
Cut around the dotted lines.
Inside the goat’s head, write what the goat
might be thinking about the troll.
Fo
ld
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Troll Thoughts
Fold this page on the line marked Fold.
Cut around the dotted lines.
Inside the troll’s head, write what the troll
might be thinking about the goats.
Fo
ld
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Alphabet Dot-to-Dot
Name
Join the dots in alphabetical order.
d
a
e
b
f
g
c
k
h
z
w
v
i
y
x
nm
o
t
u
s
r
E
D
B
F H
J
K
L
M
O
X
W
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p
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G
Z
j
V
R
Q
U
N
P
T S
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Use with Alphabet Bridge.
Alphabet Bridge
Name
Write the missing letters.
d
b
n
A
h
e
k
t
q
x
F
R
B
V
L
Find the missing words. Write them in the spaces so
that each list is in alphabetical order.
across
cross
meal
goat
hill
in
come
quickly
down
middle
once
kind
walked
finally
you
hill
eat
down
bridge
very
please
just
troll
later
grass
morning
Use with Alphabet Bridge.
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Writing Cards
If you were a troll,
how would you try to
keep goats off the bridge?
List some different
ideas.
Pretend you are a troll.
What would you like to do
at the Troll Town Fun Park?
Write about it.
Write some questions you would
like to ask the trolls.
Ask a friend to write some answers.
How could trolls be friendlier?
Dear
Troll
s,
Write some advice
for the trolls.
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T he Three Billy Goats Gruff
Use with Newsroom.
Writing Cards
Pretend you are
one of the goats.
Write the menu for
the meal you like best.
If you were a goat,
how would you catch a troll?
Write how you would build
your troll trap.
How could you get across
a river without a bridge?
Write a list of the
ways you might try.
Pretend that you are a
goat with a new bicycle.
Where would you like to go?
Why would you go there?
Use with Newsroom.
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Opposites
Name
Write each pair of opposites for each picture.
hot
dry
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wet
tight
loose
tall
short
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up
front
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back
cold
Use with Look and Find.
Similar and Different
Name
For each word, choose two words that are similar in
meaning and one word that is the opposite.
Write them in the spaces.
Word
Similar
Opposite
meaning
meaning
Big
light small
angry huge
enormous
Happy
awful cheerful
large sad
delighted
Dark
gloomy shadowy
sad summer
light
Nice
pleasant nasty
enjoyable
awful night
Use with Look and Find.
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Speech Bubbles 1
Name
Cut out the statements and paste them in the correct
speech bubble.
I am the
biggest goat.
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I don’t like
goats on my
bridge.
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I am too
small to
eat.
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We like to eat
sweet, green
grass.
Use with Look and Find.
Speech Bubbles 2
Name
Write what each troll might be saying.
Use with Look and Find.
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Make a Story Book
Cut along the dotted lines. Then staple the pages
together to make your own book.
Illustrated by
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What’s the Story? (1)
Cut out the story strips. Paste them in order
on another piece of paper.
The middle-sized goat tugged at a T-shirt,
but the goats just ran away.
The little goat grabbed some jeans,
The goats saw some clothes on a line.
and the jeans fell down.
and the T-shirt fell down.
The big goat jumped at a sock,
and the sock fell down.
Just then a troll saw the goats.
“Give me back my clothes!” he said . . .
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What’s the Story? (2)
Cut out the story strips. Paste them in order
on another piece of paper.
“Crunchy carrots,” said the little goat,
and he crunched on the carrots.
The goats went into the troll’s
vegetable garden.
and he chased the goats away.
“Tasty tomatoes,” said the middle-sized goat,
and he munched on the tomatoes.
“Greedy goats!” he yelled,
Then the troll came home.
“Lovely lettuce,” said the big goat,
and he munched on the lettuce.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Once upon a time, three hungry
Billy Goats Gruff lived on a
bare hillside.
Nearby, across a bridge, there was
plenty of sweet, green grass . . .
but the bridge was guarded day and
night by a mean and hungry troll.
Every day, the goats grew hungrier.
They just had to get across
the bridge, and one evening,
they finally thought of
a plan . . .
Next morning, Little Billy Goat Gruff
walked onto the bridge.
Trip trap, trip trap.
“Who’s that crossing my bridge?”
bellowed the troll.
“It’s just me,
Little Billy Goat Gruff.”
“I’m going to come and eat
you up!” roared the troll.
“Oh, please don’t eat me. I’m only
a mouthful,” said Little Billy Goat Gruff.
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“Wait for my brother. He’ll make a
much bigger meal.”
The troll liked that idea. “Hurry across
before I change my mind,”
he grumbled.
So Little Billy Goat Gruff trip trapped
on his way. Soon he was eating
sweet green grass.
A few minutes later, Middle-sized
Billy Goat Gruff walked onto the bridge.
Trip trap, trip trap.
“Who’s that crossing my bridge?”
roared the troll.
“It’s just me,
Middle-sized Billy Goat Gruff.”
“I’m going to come and eat
you up!” roared the troll.
“Oh, please don’t eat me. I’m only a
snack,” said Middle-sized Billy Goat Gruff.
“Wait for my tasty big brother.”
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“Hmff . . . all right. Hurry across, before
I change my mind,” said the Troll.
Finally, Big Billy Goat Gruff
walked onto the bridge.
TRIP TRAP, TRIP TRAP.
He was very big and
very hungry.
“Dinner at last!” cried the troll.
“We’ll see about that!”
said Big Billy Goat Gruff.
He raced at the troll,
and butted him once, twice,
three times with his horns.
Down, down, down tumbled
the troll, and with a great
big SPLASH, he landed in the river.
From that day, the three Billy Goats
Gruff crossed the bridge whenever
they liked . . .
. . . and the troll never, ever
tried to stop them again.
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My Record Sheet
Activity
Date I worked
Date I finished
on the computer
a print-out
Listened to story
Read the story
Interviews
with Goats
Interviews
with Trolls
Word Wall
Alphabet
Bridge
Newsroom
Look and Find:
Opposites
Look and Find:
Speech Bubbles
What a Story!
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Look and Find
Interviews
– selecting correct
answers.
Class
Record
Sheet