Kindergarden - Stories

Stories: Supplemental Guide 4A | The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids 67

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Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Story Review

• Ask students, “Is ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ fiction?”
  
  
  • “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” is fiction.
  
  
  
  


• Remind students that fiction stories are often created from people’s
  imaginations; they are not real. Many times the stories are make-
  believe and fantasy with a little bit of reality, or something that is true.


• Ask students, “What do we call the people or animals in a story?”
  
  
  • The people or animals in a story are called characters.
  
  
  
  


• Ask students, “Which characters do you remember from ‘The Three
  Billy Goats Gruff’?”


• Tell the students, “Remember, the setting is where a story takes
  place. Tell your partner about the setting for ‘The Three Billy Goats
  Gruff.’”


• Students may choose to use their Character, Setting, Plot Map for
  “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” to talk about the setting. Allow students
  to talk for thirty seconds. Call on two students to answer.]

Introducing “The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids”

Introducing Folktales

• Explain to students that the next story they will hear is a folktale.


• Have students say folktale three times.


• Tell students a folktale is fiction, but it is different from the stories
  today that are first written down in books. Explain that folktales
  were first passed down from person to person orally—or by word
  of mouth—instead of being written down in a book. For example, a
  grandmother might tell a story to her grandchildren, and later, those
  children will tell that story to their children, who in turn will pass it on
  to others. In this way, folktales are passed down from generation to
  generation.