The Three Pigs by David Wiesner

Wiesner, D. (2001). The three pigs. New York, NY: Clarion Books.

In this new updated version of the three pigs the story still has a wolf involved and he still tries to blow the pigs' houses away. He is in for a surprise when the settings change in this story. It begins set in a prairie, during the day. Then after the wolf blows the first pig's house, the setting completely changes as the pigs embarked into another story, a world of riddles. As the story continues to unfold the pigs are now in another dimension, medieval times and with a dragon. They fly from one place to another. The wolf is stuck into one of the pages. Then he's out and he huffs and huffs but he can't blow the house. The dragon scares him off.

This book could be used in a reading lesson: After reading the story have the students create and draw all of the characters in the story as well as props that were part of the story (with the teacher's help). Group students in groups of five to six. Have the students glue the paper characters to popsicle sticks, assign each popsicle stick character to each student in  the group (students may choose their character too) and have them retell the story using their popsicle characters. Each group could retell the story in front of the class.

TEKS: First Grade

(9) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

(A) describe the plot (problem and solution) and retell a story's beginning, middle, and end with attention to the sequence of events