Talk for writing about The three little pigs story

We read the 'three little pigs' story and created a class story map of the story. We also  thought up actions for each part of the story, this helped us to retell the story without having to read the book again. 

Then we looked at specific language used in the story, and thought of alternative words such as:

Small means the same as little, tiny. Big means the same as large, huge. Other words we could use instead of 'said' are shouted, whispered, called, cried.

We talked about our favourite and least favourite parts of the three little pigs story. The class had a brilliant discussion about the patterns in the story (parts that keep repeating) and the puzzles in the story (the problems that need to be overcome).

We considered how we could change the story, to create our own story. We thought about what different characters we could have, so rather than pigs, our story could be about 3 little cats or 3 little aliens. Could we change the house to a tent, cottage, shed - something that they have to build.

We added these changed to our own story plan, and read our new story aloud.