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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

By Jon Scieszka, Illustrated by Lane Smith

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Book Synopsis

In The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, we get to hear the familiar tale from the wolf's perspective. The wolf claims that he was trying to get a cup of sugar for a birthday cake for his sweet old granny when the three little pigs were rude to him. He sneezed and accidentally blew the first two pigs' houses down.

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  • P. 1 What do you think the wolf’s side of the story is? 
  • P. 8 What do you think is going to happen to the first little pig when the wolf visits his house? 
  • P. 21 What do you think is going to happen to the third little pig’s house when the wolf visits it?
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  • Where does the story take place?
  • Who are the characters?
  • What is the sequence of the events in the book?
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Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast this story with the original text of the three little pigs.

  • How are the two texts similar?  
  • How are the two texts different?  
  • Are there any other different ways this story could be told?
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There are many statements in this book that should be read with intonation. Model this for your students. After reading phrases from the little pigs such as, “Go away wolf. You can’t come it. I’m shaving the hairs on my chinny chin chin,” have the children use intonation in their voice and repeat after you to put emphasis on the little pig’s statements.

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Read the story as a class as a shared reading, do a readers’ theatre with the text, put the book in the class library for individual reading, and do partner readings with the text.

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The teaching points for this lesson were written by Amie Crawford.

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