This retell activity is great for building on oral language and retell comprehension skills for The Three Little Pigs. Use paddle pop sticks to turn the characters into puppets and use the background to assist in recreating the story.
Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools
Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
Innovate on familiar texts through play
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
Responds to and composes simple texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and compare some features of characters in different texts
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
Build on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary
Act out your own version of the story, ‘The The Little Pigs’.