The Three Billy Goats Gruff

• Read the story to your child
• Encourage your child to join in with the repeats: ‘Who’s that trip-trapping across my bridge?’
• Can you pretend to be the Troll?
• Can you pretend to be the billy goats and ‘trip trap, trip trap,’ over the bridge? Use different voices for each size
• Who is the goody? Who is the baddy?
• Talk together about what a troll is.
• Count the goats together
• Are they all the same? Talk together about the different sizes
• Why did the goats want to cross the bridge?
• Together find out the meaning of the word ‘meadow’
• How does the story end?

Beyond The Three Billy Goats Gruff

• Read some different fairytales – Jack and the Beanstalk; Goldilocks and the 3 Bears; Cinderella; The 3 Little Pigs; The Gingerbread Man
• Who are the goodies in these stories? Who are the baddies?
• Make a bridge at home and put the troll in the pack underneath. Act out the story

Useful Websites for The Three Billy Goats Gruff story

Youtube – The Three Billy Goats Gruff story

Youtube – BBC | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox – Ibex goats