Year 1 The Three Billy Goats Gruff: reading and writing worksheet

“Characters, setting and plot” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 English unit “The Three Billy Goats Gruff: reading and writing”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 12 to 13 of the year, 8 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Characters, setting and plot

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell who is in a story, where it happens and what happens.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which colour is grass? Circle one.
greenredblue
2.
Which card goes in the blank box? Circle one.
BreakfastBedtime
3.
Which word goes in the middle box? Circle one.
NextSleep

B Watch me, then you4 min

Pip is a small goat. She wants to reach the green grass on the far side of a bridge. Under the bridge, a grumpy troll is waiting.

Watch me

A wooden bridge over a rushing river, with dry brown field on one side and green grass on the other

The characters are Pip the goat and a grumpy troll.

The setting is a bridge over a river.

The plot is Pip trying to cross the bridge to the grass.

Now you

1.
In Pip's story, which one is the setting? Circle one.
a bridge over a rivera grumpy trollPip the goat
2.
Write one sentence about who is in Pip's story.

C Your turn6 min

Look at the meadow, then answer each question. Circle, sort or number as asked.

A green meadow with tall grass and a few flowers, a river in the distance

1.
In Pip's story, which one is a character? Circle one.
the bridgePip the goatthe river
2.
Which one is a setting? Circle one.
the grassy meadowthe trollPip the goat
3.
Write each card under Character or Setting.
the trollthe bridgePip the goatthe river
Character Setting
4.
Number these in the order they happen in Pip's story. Start with 1.
1. Pip reaches the grass
2. Pip walks to the bridge
3. Pip sees the troll

Say it out loud: What changed in each question? Tell a grown-up how you knew which group each thing belongs to.

D Spot the mistake3 min

The dark damp space under a stone bridge arch, with a river flowing through

Ali says: “The troll is the setting, because he lives under the bridge.”

1.
What is the troll: a character or a setting? Circle one.
charactersetting

E Think deeper3 min

Look at the three goats in the meadow. Everyone's guess can be different, and that is fine.

Three goats of different sizes standing in a dry brown meadow, looking at a bridge

1.
Look at the three goats. Guess what they will do next. Write your guess, then ask a grown-up for theirs.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Characters, setting and plot · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. green

2. Breakfast

3. Next

B

1. a bridge over a river

2. Look for: A sentence that names Pip the goat and/or the grumpy troll as someone in the story.

C

1. Pip the goat your child may have circled the bridge, which is the setting. Ask: who in the story can walk, talk or think?

2. the grassy meadow

3. Setting: the bridge, the river · Character: the troll, Pip the goat If the troll went under Setting, your child may think a creature is a place. Ask: is the troll someone in the story or where the story happens?

4. 1 Pip walks to the bridge · 2 Pip sees the troll · 3 Pip reaches the grass If the grass comes first, your child has skipped the middle of the plot. Ask: what must Pip do before she can reach the grass?

D

1. character your child may think the troll is a place because he lives under the bridge. A setting is where the story happens. The troll is a character, someone in the story.

E

1. Look for: A sensible guess about what happens next, linked to the goats, the bridge or the troll, written as the child's own idea.

Words to use

Say“Who is in the story? Where does it happen? What happens first?”

Instead of“That's wrong, read it again.”

After the sheet

At bedtime, read a picture book together. Pause to name the character, the setting and what happens next. Draw three boxes to show the plot.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

7 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Traditional tales(with a plan)
Feelings inside and out(with a plan)
Story order and story mountain(with a plan)
Describing the troll(with a plan)
Describing the goats(with a plan)
Sentences for a story(with a plan)
Writing a story ending(with a plan)

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