Introduction:
The following series of activities are designed to use variations of a familiar folk tale, The Three Little Pigs

Materials:
Read Aloud Books--Traditional retellings:

• The Three Little Pigs, by Paul Galdone (traditional)
• The Three Little Pigs, by Stephen Kellog (traditional)
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by J. Scieszka  (satire)
• The Three Little Pigs and the Fox: An Appalachian Tale, by William Hooks 
• Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig,by E Trivizas and H Oxenbury 
• (satire) 
• The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell  (Southwestern, a Reading 
• Rainbow book)
• Pig, Pigger Piggest, by Rick Walton (great for language arts lessons on the 
•  simple, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives)
• The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic Shark by D M Laird  (Hawaian)
• Yo Hungry Wolf, A Nursery Rap, by David Vozar (rap version in paperback)
• The Fourth Little Pig By T Celsi  (features the sister of the Three Little 
• Pigs  who tries to persuade her brothers to overcome their fears and go 
• outside: Becky Smith says this is a great story that gives credit to Sister 
• Power!)

Choose a traditional version of The Three Little Pigs to read aloud to your children.  Review read aloud strategies to helpwith this.  If you do not have access to a copy of a traditional retelling of The Three Little Pigs, you could use this simple variation that I wrote. As you read the title and author and illustrator of the book, point out to the children the language "retold by" intead of written by.  Point out that stories like the Three Little Pigs are folk tales and that means they've been told many many times.  For more info, see What's a folk tale?  It's important to draw attention to this to begin setting the stage for children to