Billy Goats Gruff: what a classic! You can share this brilliant story with your pupils whilst honing their storytelling skills with Hope Educations Travelling Tales: Billy Goats Gruff resource. Travelling Tales sacks are one-stop shops for all your storytelling lesson needs. In this Travelling Tales, the cross-curricular resources are centred around the Alison Edgson re-telling of the classic fairy tale, Billy Goats Gruff.

Children can re-tell the story of Billy Goats Gruff using the wooden character set and story mat included in this Travelling Tales story sack. You can also plan a series of cross-curricular storytelling lessons using the game and troll storybook included in this sack of quality resources.

• Inject excitement in your reading lessons using this sack of quality storytelling resources.
• Save your voice and let an expert tell the story with the audio book CD included.
• Encourage your learners to make connections between texts by reading The Troll, another storybook, to your class.

Whats in the Travelling Tales sack?

1 x copy of Billy Goats Gruff

1 x fiction book**

1 x set of wooden characters**

1 x story mat**

1 x animal-themed game**

1 x Teacher Guide**

Contents may vary from description due to availability

**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Alison Edgson or Childs Play (International) Ltd.

Reasons to Love

• Quality texts from well known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
• Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories
• Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language
• Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information
• The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story

Learning Outcomes

• Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
• Provide wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
• After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
• Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
• Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
• Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain roles of characters in the stories.
• Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
• Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.