Book Summary
The classic folktale The Three Little Pigs is retold with rich description—featuring the big, bad wolf huffing and puffing to blow down the straw house, the stick house, and the brick house. Memorable lines such as "Not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin!" add to the fun, and the story ends with a breathless wolf toppling over in defeat. As expected, the three little pigs live happily ever after in the brick house. Illustrations support the text. This book is one of two multilevel readers.

Book and lesson also available at Level I.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Visualize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of visualizing to understand text
• Sequence events
• Identify silent k
• Recognize and understand the formation of past-tense verbs ending in -ed
• Recognize and use antonyms
• Use a thesaurus

Materials

• Book – The Three Little Pigs (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries and thesauruses
• Visualize, sequence events, past-tense verbs, antonyms worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: brick, budge, conversation, decide, exhale, haystack, huff, inhale, pies, puff, ravenous, slurped, sob, straw, tremble