Ages 3-4 · 6 Prompts · 4 Target Words
The Gruffalo
by Julia Donaldson
Prompt Deck
01Completion
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark ___
'Wood!' The rhymes in this book make completion prompts effortless.
02Wh-question
What's the mouse trying to do?
Reading intentions builds theory of mind. 'He's trying to scare them off!'
03Open-ended
Look at the gruffalo's face. Tell me about him.
04Recall
Who has the mouse met so far?
Fox, owl, snake, gruffalo. Sequencing characters builds memory.
05Distancing
Has anyone ever tried to trick you? What did you do?
06Wh-question
Why is the gruffalo running away?
The twist is the heart of the book. Discussing it builds comprehension.
Target Vocabulary
These are the words worth pausing on. When they come up, point at the picture, define them simply, and use the word again in your next sentence.
- stroll
- a slow, gentle walk
- terrible
- very, very bad or scary
- purple
- a colour like dark pink and blue mixed
- knobbly
- bumpy and lumpy
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