The Three Little Pigs is one of my favorite stories to read to the children. This well-known tale helps them grow as early readers.
The repeating text gives children confidence. They begin to anticipate the words, join in with the phrases, and quickly memorize key parts of the story. Before long, they aren’t just listening — they’re telling it themselves.
Retelling a story is a foundation of early literacy. When children can retell, they are practicing sequencing, comprehension, vocabulary, and language all at once.
We can also learn a little about science from this story. Will straw make a strong safe house?
What about sticks?
Bricks?
Our vocabulary word:
Berto gave a “snout” kiss to all of the children.
I like to stop here and ask the students to predict what they think the pigs will do.
The wolf is gone forever and we all agree we really like their new house!
On the projector:
Next door in Maker Space, the children built houses for the pigs.
We read this version during my after school classes:
We then used toothpicks and marshmallows to figure out how to build homes for our little pigs.
The children divided up and told the story together with some storytelling cloth sets I have.
Each child also took home a storytelling bag. The children really enjoy retelling this story. Such fun, and they have no idea how much they are learning!
I had three of these balloon pigs for them to play with.
We blew the straw and the sticks. They were easy to blow around. The brick was another story!
And of course, I had to play this song.
Print this to retell the story:
Here are two more Three Little Pigs books:
“Pig” Berto loves this story!
Find more fun ideas to go with this story here: