In this worksheet, students translate ‘The Gruffalo’ from a British forest filled with woodland creatures, to a more familiar setting. Th...
This fantastic game is a great little fast finisher or rations activity for your students. Get Away From the Gruffalo is a straightforward d...
In this worksheet, students match pictures of characters with rhyming words. This can be used on its own, or as a simpler alternative to ‘Gr...
In this worksheet, students match up words that formed rhyming couplets in the story. For a simpler version of a rhyming worksheet for pre-r...
In this worksheet, students reflect on their favourite part of the story, retelling it through writing and drawing. This resource is part...
In this worksheet, students extend the story even further, writing and drawing what happens to Gruffalo after he flees the little brown mous...
In this worksheet, now that students have focused on the sequence of the story, they create their own retell of the beginning, middle and en...
In this worksheet, students sequence a series of scenes from the Gruffalo. This resource is part of a larger Gruffalo unit, which focuses...
This worksheet overlays the chronology of The Gruffalo on the mouse’s trip through the woods, helping kids visualise the retell. This res...
In this worksheet, students begin flexing their retell and comprehension muscles by putting the story’s character introductions in order....
In this worksheet, students cut the character names from the bottom sheets and match them with the characters above. Let them colour the cha...
This colouring page will keep them busy for a while. Use it for fast finishers or for some quiet focus coming out of a break. This resour...
This title page is a fun inclusion if you choose to reproduce this unit as a workbook for your students. This resource is part of a large...
This card reintroduces students to the characters in the storybook, and lets them colour and paste it into their books. This resource is...
Encourage writing in your classroom with these word cards. These can be used in a variety of ways, ranging from a visual dictionary, as writ...
This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.
This resource is great for using the knowledge from the story to graph to then record data. Students will have the opportunity to practise t...
This resource is a great for finding, reading and practising to say the main key words from the story, ‘Wombat Stew’.
This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.
This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.
This resource is a great early inferencing activity, whereby students will need to use their prior knowledge and information from the story...
This resource is great for reinforcing knowledge of characters from the story, by drawing them. Students will have to think about what the c...
These ‘Wombat Stew’ puppets are great for practising retell. Students may stick them to pencils, straws or paddle pop sticks to create puppe...
These ‘Wombat Stew’ puppets are great for practising retell. Students may stick them to pencils, straws or paddle pop sticks to create puppe...
These ‘Sentence Builder’ worksheets are great for reading and ordering words to create sentences that reflect events from the story. The wor...
These ‘Read and Trace’ worksheets are great to practise reading words from the story in a sentence, tracing and writing small words.
These sequencing cards are great for practising the retell strategy after reading. Use these sequencing cards as a class, in rotation groups...
These sequencing cards are great for practising the retell strategy after reading. Use these sequencing cards as a class, in rotation groups...
This resource is a great resource for reflecting on the story and assisting with the retell strategy.
This resource is great for using the knowledge from the story to graph to then record data. Students will have the opportunity to practise t...