Reading Enrichment Unit

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf

Grade Level: 4th

Resources Used:
Galdone, P (1970). The Three Little Pigs. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
Scieszka, J (1989). The Ture Story of the Three Little Pigs. New York, NY: Viking Books

Standards For 21st Centary Learners

2.1.5 Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions,
and solve problems.
2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products
that express new understandings.

Georgia Standards
ELAGSE4W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.

Objectives:
The students will choose a side of the story they think is real and write an opinion piece to
explain why.
The students will create a group Glogster to present their side story to the class.

Day OneThe media specialist will introduce the story, The Three Little Pigs to the students. She will
introduce characters and key vocabulary words. The media specialist will read the story The
Three Little Pigs to the students. After Reading the story the class will discuss what happened in
the story and the roles that the pigs and the wolf played in the story.

Day TwoThe media specialist will begin the lesson by having a student retell the Three Little Pigs from
the last lesson. Then the media specialist will introduce the book, The Real Story of the Three
Little Pig. She will introduce the characters and key vocabulary words. The media specialist will
read the story to the students. After reading the story, the class will discuss how this story was
different from the story, The Three Little Pigs. Students will be told that before coming next time
he need to log onto Edmodo and answer the discussion question. The assignment is to tell which
side you feel is the true story about the Three Pigs and The Wolf. Make sure to use examples
from the story you choose to back you up. Then reply to someone with the opposite opinion of
you.

Day ThreeThe class wiil review the two side of the story, The Three Little Pigs. The class will be broken
into two groups, those siding with the pigs and those siding with the wolf. The group will choose
a group leader. The groups will discuss why they choose the side they did. The group will create
a Glogster (https://www.glogster.com/#caffe ) to share with the class. The group leader will
present the groups Glogster to the whole class.