SAMPLE COPY © Innova Press · 2019. 10. 30. · 2. Goldilocks goes back to the kitchen. Look at the next page. Check. Goldilocks eats the porridge. She goes into the living room

Retold by Terry Phillips

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Grade 3 | Book 6

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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ISBN 978-1-78768-020-3

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.Project management and production: Toynbee Editorial Services Ltd.Design: Becky Holland & Partners (BH&P)Illustration: Jörgen McLemanAudio recording: Wired Studios Ltd.Printed and bound in Greece.

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Goldilocks and the

Three Bears

ISBN 978-1-78768-020-3



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What happens next? Read and choose.1. Goldilocks goes into the kitchen.2. Goldilocks goes home.Look at the next page. Check.

Goldilocks goes for a walk in the forest.She is hungry and tired.She thinks, “I’m hungry and tired.”

She sees a house and she thinks, “Ooh! A house.”

She reads a sign on a tree.She says, “The Three Bears.”

The door is open and she can see the kitchen.



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What happens next? Read and choose.1. Goldilocks leaves the porridge.2. Goldilocks eats the porridge.Look at the next page. Check.

Goldilocks goes into the kitchen.Three bowls of porridge are on the table.She says, “Ooh! Porridge!”

She tries the first bowl but she says, “It’s too hot!”

She tries the second bowl but she says, “It’s too cold!”

She tries the third bowl and she says, “It’s lovely!”



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What happens next? Read and choose.1. Goldilocks goes into the bedroom.2. Goldilocks goes back to the kitchen.Look at the next page. Check.

Goldilocks eats the porridge.She goes into the living room.She sees three chairs.She says, “Ooh! Chairs!”

She tries the first chair but she says, “It’s too hard!”

She tries the second chair but she says, “It’s too soft!”

She tries the third chair and she says, “It’s lovely!”



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What happens next? Read and choose.1. The bears come home.2. Goldilocks goes home.Look at the next page. Check.

Goldilocks goes into the bedroom.She sees three beds.She says, “Ooh! Beds!”

She tries the first bed but she says, “It’s too hard!”

She tries the second bed but she says, “It’s too soft!”

She tries the third bed and she says, “It’s lovely!”



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What happens next? Read and choose.1. The three bears go into the living room.2. Goldilocks goes into the living room.Look at the next page. Check.

The bears come home.

They go into the kitchen.

Father Bear says, “I see a spoon in my bowl.”Mother Bear says, “I see a spoon in my bowl, too.”Baby Bear says, “My bowl is empty!”



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What does Baby Bear say? Read and choose.1. Baby Bear says, “My bed’s broken.”2. Baby Bear says, “A girl’s in my bed!”Look at the next page. Check.

The three bears go into the living room.

Father Bear says, “Look at my chair!”Mother Bear says, “Look at my chair!”Baby Bear says, “My chair’s broken!”

The three bears go into the bedroom.



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What is the best ending for the story? Read and choose.• Goldilocks never goes to the house again.• Goldilocks goes to the house every day.

Baby Bear says, “A girl’s in my bed!”Mother Bear says, “She’s asleep!”

Goldilocks wakes up. She sees the three bears. She says, “Aaah!”

She screams and runs ... out of the bedroom ... through the living room ... and through the kitchen.

She runs out of the house and all the way home.



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Picture dictionary

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empty full

go to sleep wake up

a living room

a bowl

broken

eat drink

hungry thirsty

a spoon

a bedroom

a chair

a kitchen

a signa bear

awake asleep



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Exercises

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Vocabulary 1Read the words.Find the words in the snake.

Vocabulary 2Find pairs of words. Draw lines.

asleep thirstyempty softhungry drinknoisy sadhard tall

happy fullshort quieteat awake

are pullcome pushdrink turneat wakego walkis

d r i n k w a k e p u l l ea

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a l k c o m e g o i s t u r n a r e



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Vocabulary 3Write the numbers.

a beara bedrooma bowla chaira kitchen

1

2

3

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a living rooma signa spoona girla bed

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Comprehension 1: OrderingTell the story. Number the sentences in order.

Three bowls of porridge are on the table.

1 Goldilocks is in a forest and she is hungry and tired.

The third bed is lovely and she goes to sleep.

The first bowl is too hot, the second bowl is too cold, but the third bowl is lovely.

Goldilocks wakes up and sees the three bears.

The first chair is too big and the second chair is too soft.

Goldilocks goes into the bedroom and sees three beds.

She screams. She runs out of the house and all the way home.

2 She sees a house and goes into the kitchen.

The first bed is too hard and the second bed is too soft.

The third chair is lovely.

She goes into the living room and sees three chairs.

Comprehension 2: True / FalseTrue (T) or false (F) in the story? Tick (✔) in T or F.

T F

1 Father Bear likes very cold porridge. ✔

2 Goldilocks eats all of the porridge in one bowl.

3 Goldilocks is bigger than Baby Bear.

4 The bears are scary for Goldilocks.

5 The bears run after Goldilocks.



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GrammarTell the story. Tick (✔) the best way to complete each sentence.1 Goldilocks is in a forest and she is hungry and ...

✔ tired. asleep.

2 She sees a house and goes into ...the room. the kitchen.

3 Three bowls of porridge are ...on the table. under the table.

4 The first bowl is too hot, the second bowl is too cold but the third bowl is ...

lovely. terrible.

5 She goes into the living room and sees three ...chair. chairs.

6 The first chair is too big and the second chair is too ...wet. soft.

7 The third chair ...is lovely. are lovely.

8 Goldilocks goes into the bedroom and sees three ...

bed. beds.

9 The first bed is too hard and the second bed is too ...soft. dry.

10 The third bed is lovely and she goes to ...

bed. sleep.



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A poemGoldilocks is hungry.She’s also very tired.She reads a sign. It says: Three Bears.She stops and goes inside.

The porridge on the tableIs hot, or cold, or good!She eats it all and then sits down.The chairs are made of wood.

The little chair is broken.Goldie doesn’t see.She goes into the bedroom.“Ah. That’s the bed for me!”

She goes to sleep and has a dream.Three trolls are in the room.Goldie wakes up and sees the bears.She screams all the way home.



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Answer key Vocabulary 1drink | wake | pull | eat | push | walk | come | go | is | turn | areVocabulary 2asleep awake hard softempty full happy sadhungry thirsty short tallnoisy quiet eat drink

Vocabulary 3a bear 7; a bedroom 6; a bowl 2; a chair 10; a kitchen 4; a living room 9; a sign 5; a spoon 8; a girl 1; a bed 3.

Comprehension 1: Ordering1. Goldilocks is in a forest and she is hungry and tired.2. She sees a house and goes into the kitchen.3. Three bowls of porridge are on the table.4. The first bowl is too hot, the second bowl is too cold, but the third

bowl is lovely.5. She goes into the living room and sees three chairs.6. The first chair is too big and the second chair is too soft.7. The third chair is lovely.8. Goldilocks goes into the bedroom and sees three beds.9. The first bed is too hard and the second bed is too soft.10. The third bed is lovely and she goes to sleep.11. Goldilocks wakes up and sees the three bears.12. She screams. She runs out of the house and all the way home.

Comprehension 2: True / False1. Father Bear likes very cold porridge. (F)2. Goldilocks eats all of the porridge in one bowl. (T)3. Goldilocks is bigger than Baby Bear. (T)4. The bears are scary for Goldilocks. (T)5. The bears run after Goldilocks. (F)

Grammar1 tired; 2 the kitchen; 3 on the table; 4 lovely; 5 chairs; 6 soft; 7 is lovely; 8 beds; 9 soft; 10 sleep.



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For Teachers and Parents

Aim

To begin to teach the skill of reading to non-native speaker young learners.

Encouraging learning

Classic tales retold with engaging illustrations of a magical land.

A hook at the end of every page – ‘What happens next?’ – encourages young learners to predict, then check for themselves by reading on.

The stories are fun and often have a moral to discuss in the child’s first language after reading.

Illustrations with speech and thought bubbles

Detailed full-colour illustrations support every page of prose text. New nouns are captioned. The illustrations and bubbles mean that children can understand a lot of the story before they read, or while they read, the prose text.

A Picture Dictionary shows the meaning of new adjectives and new verbs in the story.

Exercises and poems

Vocabulary, comprehension and grammar exercises for each reader, and poems, too!

Level of prose text

Grade 1: Lexile 100L – 200L, 50 – 150 words




Young learners with a slightly lower Lexile level will be able to understand the stories in each case because of the support from the illustrations.

Reading skills in Grade 3

Skill 1: Understanding short sentences

Short sentences with basic English sentence patterns are introduced systematically. Sentences in short paragraphs are separated by white space, so children can see the story structure clearly. Short sentences help children to internalise basic sentence patterns in English.

The patterns in Grades 3 are:

• all the patterns in Grades 1 and 2 plus

• S V C (C = noun), e.g., Hamelin is a town.

• too + adjective, e.g., It’s too hot.

• this / that + noun, e.g., This field has no grass.

• must for necessity, e.g., I must be quiet.

• must for deduction, e.g., She must be a princess.

Narrative present simple is used throughout.

Skill 2: Understanding relationships between sentences

Links between sentences – e.g., indefinite to definite article, noun to pronoun – are introduced gradually, and each feature appears many times to ensure that children understand discourse references.

Skill 3: Predicting next events in a continuing story

The ‘What happens next?’ feature on each page makes this essential subskill fun, and enables a teacher or parent to check how much the young learner has understood about the story and the possible continuation sentences.

Teacher / parent guide

Comprehensive methodology notes online. These include alternative routes through the story, group and individual activities and extension activities for children who finish quickly.



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