Traditional Tales: Little Red Riding Hood

This five-lesson Little Red Riding Hood Year 1 English planning pack challenges your KS1 class to retell, sequence and explore the story of Little Red Riding Hood from start to finish. Your class can use the included lesson slides to help them participate in discussions and answer questions about the story. The printable resources that are tailored to each Little Red Riding Hood lesson help support your Year 1 class as they retell the story using puppets or role-play.

Challenge your class to sequence events in the story and use adjectives to describe characters and create a wanted poster for the Big Bad Wolf. The children will also have the opportunity to compare the story to a different version and become story detectives in order to find similarities and differences between the two versions of the story.

Complete with everything you need, this Year 1 English planning pack is a great way to explore familiar stories with your class as a stand-alone unit or as part of your fairytale topic. Please note we cannot provide any text from the book referenced in Lesson 5 due to copyright.

Retelling the Story

Your Year 1 class can use the Little Red Riding Hood story map provided in this first lesson to retell the story that they have just listened to. They are encouraged in the lesson input slides to remember and join in with the parts they know. The detailed lesson plan provided in this pack offers you differentiated activity ideas including using puppets and Little Red Riding Hood drama activities.

Download everything you need to challenge and support your Year 1 class as they retell the familiar story of Little Red Riding Hood.

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Story Sequencing

Challenge your Year 1 class to complete these Little Red Riding Hood story sequencing activities supported by the printable resources included in this KS1 lesson pack. Your class will revisit the familiar story of Little Red Riding Hood and then use their understanding of the story to sequence different events. They will initially do this as a class using the provided lesson slides and then move on to working independently as they read and sequence sentences from the story.

The included differentiated printable resources provide your KS1 class with the support of sequencing pictures or sentences. Alternatively, they can be challenged to order a set of Little Red Riding Hood sequencing pictures to add their own sentences to.

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Describing Characters

The Little Red Riding Hood worksheets in this Year 1 lesson pack provide your KS1 class with the challenge of describing the different characters using simple adjectives. Your class will be asked to choose appropriate adjectives from lists or groups of words and assign them to a character who they are most suited for.

The provided printable resources in this pack include a three-way differentiation of the task and an alternative activity that involves the children playing a card game using adjectives.

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Wanted Posters

This Big Bad Wolf wanted poster KS1 lesson challenges your class to use adjectives in their descriptions of the Big Bad Wolf in order to get him caught. The included lesson slides discuss and model the different aspects and features of a wanted poster and encourage your class to offer suggestions for how the poster should be structured. Supported by the differentiated wanted poster templates, your class can create their own descriptions of the Big Bad Wolf or use the vandalised wanted poster as a model for the structure of their poster and descriptive sentences.

Everything you need to teach a fun and engaging descriptive lesson themed around the story of Little Red Riding Hood is instantly downloadable in this Year 1 English lesson pack.

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Comparing Versions of the Story

The Little Red Riding Hood activities in this KS1 English lesson challenge your Year 1 class to compare and contrast two versions of the story. After reading 'Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion' your class will discuss the story and then become story detectives. They will hunt out any similarities between the two stories as well as the main differences. Using the printable resources to support them, including a story map of each version of the story, the children will independently sort statements based on which version of the story they are talking about.

This final lesson in the series comes with a detailed lesson plan, differentiated activities, lesson slides, and printable resources. All you'll need is access to the story of 'Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion' by Alex T. Smith (not provided).

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