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- “Our Three Little Pigs” story
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1 With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
English Language Arts/Writing/W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Recognizes that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes, such as giving information, sharing stories, or giving an opinion.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge Retells stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16 Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
English Language Arts/Composition 17 Add details or make changes to published or class-made stories.
Draw and Write Together: More of “Our Three Little Pigs”
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Sequencing, Storytelling
Display the “Our Three Little Pigs” story that children are working on. Reread what they have already dictated. Track the words with children as you read.
Tell children that today they are going to finish writing and illustrating their story. Encourage children to illustrate each page of their story. Let them choose what to draw, but guide the activity so that each important part of the story is illustrated. Some children may draw more than one picture to fill the gaps.
Help children put the pictures in the correct sequence. Then bind the pages into a booklet. Display the story next to the original story in the Library Center for children to revisit. If children made individual stories instead of a group story, display them all for children to view at the Library Center.
Take It Further: You may want to invite families and friends to view the children’s version of the folktale.