Year 1 The Three Little Pigs: reading and writing worksheet

“Tales and their characters” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 English unit “The Three Little Pigs: 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 21 to 22 of the year, 8 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Tales and their characters

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

Today I can say who the characters are, where a story happens and what the problem is.

A Look back3 min

1.
The wolf is not pleased with the pigs. Circle the word for how he feels.
happycrosssleepy
2.
Join these two sentences with the word and. Write your new sentence.
3.
Morning, then a gap, then evening, then night. Circle the gap.
afternoonspiderbread

B Watch me, then you4 min

A story has a setting. The setting is where the story happens. The characters are the animals or people in the story. Watch me sort them out.

A quiet farm with green fields, a hill and a few trees under a blue sky

Watch me

A hen lives on a farm near a hill.

The farm and the hill are the setting. That is where the story happens.

The hen is a character. She is an animal in the story.

Now you

1.
A hen and a fox meet in a wood. Which one is a character? Circle one.
the henthe woodthe sky

C Your turn7 min

Read each question. Circle the answer or write it down.

1.
In The Three Little Pigs, which one is a character? Circle one.
the wolfthe countrysidethe brick
2.
Which one is the setting of the story? Circle one.
the countrysidethe wolfthe pigs
3.
Which is the problem in the story? Circle one.
the wolf blows the house downthe pigs go to schoolthe sun shines
4.
Write one sentence about how the pigs are safe at the end. Join two ideas with and.

Say it out loud: What do the setting words have in common? What do the character words have in common?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Three pigs beside a strong brick house while a wolf climbs the chimney

Kit says: “The wolf is the hero of the story.”

1.
Who is the hero of the story? Circle one.
the pigsthe wolf

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Make up a story idea. Write one sentence with a character and a setting.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Tales and their characters · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. cross If they circle happy, ask them to point to the stormy end of the scale. Which feeling is near the storm?

2. Look for: one sentence that joins the two ideas with 'and', with a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end If they write two separate sentences, ask them to remove the full stop in the middle and put and in its place.

3. afternoon If they circle spider or bread, ask: is this a time of day? Which time comes straight after morning?

B

1. the hen If they circle the wood, ask: is a wood an animal or a place? Places are the setting.

C

1. the wolf

2. the countryside If they circle the pigs, ask: is this where the story happens, or who is in it?

3. the wolf blows the house down If they circle the sun shines, ask: does this make a problem for the pigs? A problem is something the characters must solve.

4. Look for: one sentence saying the pigs are safe, with the word and, a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end If the sentence has no and, ask them to join the two chain ideas with and.

D

1. the pigs If they circle the wolf, say: the wolf is the villain who blows the houses down. Ask who saves the day.

E

1. Look for: one sentence with a named character and a place where the story happens, starting with a capital letter

Words to use

Say“Who is in the story, and where does it happen? What is the problem?”

Instead of“Just read it and say well done, without asking about the story.”

After the sheet

Tell a favourite old tale at teatime. Ask who the hero was, where it happened and what the problem was.

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:

How the pigs feel(with a plan)
Describing the wolf(with a plan)
Describing the pigs' houses(with a plan)
Put the story in order(with a plan)
Starting my pig story(with a plan)
Writing the middle(with a plan)
Writing a Surprise Ending(with a plan)

Every Year 1 English worksheet

The worksheets plan opens a printable sheet for every lesson in Years 1 to 6, each with its answers on a separate page for you. It costs £6.99 a month or £59 a year for the whole family, with no free trial.

The full StudyDen plan adds the lessons themselves, marked as your child works, with the worksheets included. It is 7 days free, then £29.99 a month.

Get the worksheets Try the full plan free

Both start with a free account; you choose the plan when you sign up.