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Lesson Plan
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Three Bears and Three Goats in the Morning Sun

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the story Three Bears from the book, Three Tales of Three, focusing on the one-to-one correspondence while counting various items in the story. They create pages for the number 3 for their counting books.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs: Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Readers explore rhyming words. They will use the story The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs to identify rhyming words. Then they will create their own lists of rhyming words. In the end, they will be able to come up with words that rhyme...
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Printables
Teacher Printables

My Mini Book About …

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This is one of several printable pages on which little life scientists can write out their research on an assigned animal. The highlighted page is for alligator research, but several other animal pages are included as other materials....
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Worksheet
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This Little Piggy

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these nursery rhyme worksheets, students color the pictures to go with the story of the Three Little Pigs. Students use the pictures to help them learn the nursery rhyme.
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Fractured Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through reading and writing, learners explore common elements found in fairy tales. After discussing traditional fairy tales, class members listen to The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by John Scieszka, a hilarious retelling of the...
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The Three Pigs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders design and construct homes for the three pigs. Each of the homes is made and filled with patterns that we explore. They continue a sequential pattern and describe a rule for this.
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Lesson One: The Historian's Craft

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine a fairy tale villain (such as the wolf from the Three Little Pigs or the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz). Next, they complete a worksheet considering the challenges presented by historical resources.
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Activity
Michigan Farm Bureau

The Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 2nd
No one will be saying "Not I" with a lesson that combines The Little Red Hen with the life cycle of a wheat stem! After reading the story in your class, pass out wheat stems to your learners and have them examine the plants closely,...
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Recycled Materials

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the properties and uses of recyclable materials. For this recycled materials lesson, students are introduced to the idea that some materials can be recycled. They investigate the types of materials that can be reused,...
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Tradebook Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students listen to the story The True Story  of the Three Little Pigs and explore a variety of questions related to conflict resolution. In this trade book activity lesson, students listen to the teacher ask a variety of higher order...
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Comparing Tales through Performance

For Teachers K - 4th
Students compare and contrast versions of The Three Little Pigs. In this fairy tale instructional activity, students read 3 versions of the fairy tale and dramatize them in order to analyze the similarities and differences.
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The Rest of the Story

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make predictions about the story "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" based on background knowledge. They read the story, stopping to verify or reject predictions. They write their own opinionated fairytales.
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Comprehension-Characters/characterization

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss characterization as well as to define antagonist and protagonist. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders write questions for an interview of a character in the book "The Three Little Pigs" and then answer them....
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Unit Plan
Council for Economic Education

Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Introduce young learners to the subject of economics using their favorite stories and books. Including 24 separate lessons, this guide covers economic principles such as trade, scarcity, consumer goods and services, renewable and...
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Unit Plan
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Classic Storytelling with a Technology Twist

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use technology to improve their knowledge of literary terms, math, and technology skills. In this technology storytelling lesson, students learn about character, plot, and setting in various stories by using technology like...
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Lesson Plan
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Pigs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and eat pigs n mud all to learn about pigs. In this pigs lesson plan, students also dance with pink ribbons and make pigs out of construction paper.
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Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

The Way I See It: Point of View

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Robbers see a house from a different perspective than real estate agents. That's the big idea in a lesson about point of view. Groups assume the role of either robbers or real estate agents, note important details in a description of a...
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The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice moving safely through a large area (i.e., without bumping into others).
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New Endings

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs in an urban setting. They then divide into small groups and using one story per group, read the story in 15 minutes and come up with a new ending and practice for an additional...
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Whole Language Approach in Solving Word Problems

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the concept of word problems. In this word problems lesson, students read a version of the Three Little Pigs. Students discuss what math vocabulary words such as 'in all' and 'many more' meant in the story.
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Comparisons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to read alouds of The Story of Ferdinand and Roberto and the Bull and view Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs online. In this reading lesson, 2nd graders compare and contrast the two stories using a...
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Aloha, Hawaii!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the Hawaiian version of The Three Little Pigs, to study cultures and traditions of the island. They gather and study resources about the culture, people, and endangered species of Hawaii.
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Sequence Of Events

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to the concept of sequence of events. They work in groups to properly sequence The Three Little Pigs, then work individually to write their own stories about their individuality.
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Fairytale Homes

For Teachers K
Students listen to and retell familiar stories. They create fairytale homes based on those familiar stories. Students practice retelling familiar stories in their own words. They complete both assignments on The Three Little Pigs.