Ms. Moran's Kindergarten: The Three Littlg Pigs and Free Comparing and Contrasting

One of my favorite stories to share with my class is the classic story The Three Little Pigs(affiliate link). I love how my students are so into the repetition that they hear and reading it along. I usually do a full unit of the story since there are so many different activities that can be done.

Students love reading their own little emergent reader. I focus on a sight word to make it easy and predictable for the students.

We use that same sight word to make a little flip book. Students then copy the sentences that they made and read in their flip book.

Students go back to the story to sequence events. I usually do a whole group sequencing pocket chart activity first.

There Little Pigs kindergarten no prep sub plans. Includes a full day worth of common core aligned activities that are meaningful and engaging for students

We practice our rhyming (a skill we can never get enough practice with) and listening for missing sounds.

And an interactive Google Slides™rhyming activity where students drag and drop the check mark to identify if the words rhyme or not.

We practice identifying element from the story and sort things that belong and in story and those that do not.

And have fun with some The Little Pigs math.

I do all of this and more with my students and then we move on to retelling and comparing different versions of the story.

I recently discovered the story The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (affiliate link)and it became one of my favorite alternative versions

This story was perfect for hitting the kindergarten standard of comparing and contrasting. This standard is always pretty difficult for my students so I created this simple compare and contrast sort after finishing the stories.

There are two different versions that allow for differentiation. One with pictures for students to sort and the other is more opened ended where students can write or draw their own pictures from the story.