Three+Billy+Goats+Gruff

Day 1

 * 1) Have you ever read this book before? Start to make connections in your mind, activate your schema. What happens in the story? Make a few predictions if they don't know the story.
 * 2) What do you know about goats? What do they eat? How do their protect themselves? How about trolls?
 * 3) Do a picture walk and make predictions mentally. Share a few at the end.
 * 4) Who are the characters? Review big, little, and middle-sized. (page 3)
 * 5) Who is the bad guy? What is a troll? (Look at page 7)
 * 6) So the three billy goats gruff need to cross the bridge to get to eat the sweet grass on the hillside. But the troll is going to try to stop them!
 * 7) Look at page 9. Go over "very well" and "be off with you!"
 * 8) Review strategies for tricky words, and the popsicle sticks for sweeping.
 * 9) Read to the end of page 9.
 * 10) Share some strategies.

Day 2

 * 1) Make a list of connections we have. List them all. We are going to keep adding to the list, and think about which connections really help us understand the story and which ones don't help us so much.
 * 2) Look at page 7. How do the characters talk? The troll "roared." How does that sound? Ask someone to read it for us. How does the little billy goat sound?
 * 3) Page 8: gobble. What does that mean? Infer the meaning from the sentence.
 * 4) Read to page 11, and try to make connections that help you understand the story.
 * 5) Page 19: butted.
 * 6) Infer why the billy goats are telling the troll to wait for their brother? Do you think they really want him to eat their brother? Predict what they are doing.
 * 7) Finish the story.
 * 8) Add to our list of connections.

Day 3

 * 1) Add to connections list.
 * 2) How did the billy goats beat the troll?
 * 3) Re-read and see if you have any other connections, either to your self, or to other stories about bullies and how they get tricked.
 * 4) Focus on fluency.
 * 5) Share connections. Look at list and see which ones really help us understand the story better.

Day 4

 * 1) How was the big billy goat able to stop the troll?
 * 2) Review list of connections. What do you have to do to make connections that really help you understand a story better?
 * 3) Do the play.