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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
PawSteps · Symbol-Supported Story · Book 5 · Every word has a picture!
🐐 🐐 🐐 🌉 👹
✔ The classic bridge tale in short, repetitive sentences
✔ TRIP-TRAP! chant in green cells — stamp your feet as you read!
✔ Grumpy troll lines in red cells — do your best troll voice
✔ Small → middle → BIG structure teaches size comparing
✔ Vocabulary board · comprehension · bridge game + retell planner
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🍎PawSteps · For Grown-Ups
Reading This Book
💡 Why this story?
Trip-trap, trip-trap — this tale is 90% rhythm and repetition. Stamp feet (or drum the table) for every crossing: quiet taps for the small goat, medium stomps for the middle goat, THUNDEROUS stamps for the big goat. Loud/quiet, big/small — concepts through the body.
🗣️ Two voices to play with
The goats' clever line ("Wait for my brother — he is bigger!") repeats twice, and the troll's roar ("WHO is trip-trapping over MY bridge?!") repeats three times. Assign parts: child does the troll, you do the goats — then swap.
💚 Talk it through
The troll gets a splash, not a squash — he swims off grumpily to find a new bridge. Afterwards, wonder together: why was the troll so grumpy? What would make the bridge nicer for everyone?
📖The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Page 1
🕰️Once upon a time
therewere
3️⃣three
🐐billy goats.
🤏Small goat,
✋middle goat
and
💪BIG goat.
They
🤲wanted
the
🌿green grass
overthe
🌉bridge.
1
📖The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Page 2
⬇️Under
the
🌉bridge
🏠lived
a
😠grumpy
👹troll.
👹"WHO is
🥾trip-trapping
🌉over MY bridge?!"
2
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Page 3
The
🤏small goat
went
🥾trip-trap,
🥾trip-trap.
👹"I will
😋eat you!"
"No!
⏳Wait for
my
🐐brother.
Heis
💪bigger!"
The
👹troll
⏳waited.
3
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Page 4
The
✋middle goat
went
🥾trip-trap,
🥾trip-trap.
👹"I will
😋eat you!"
"No!
⏳Wait for
my
🐐brother.
Heis
💪BIGGER!"
The
👹troll
⏳waited.
4
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Page 5
The
💪BIG goat
went
🥾TRIP-TRAP,
🥾TRIP-TRAP!
👹"I will
😋eat you!"
"Oh no
you
❌won't!"
The
💪big goat
🐐💨butted
the
👹troll—
💦SPLASH!—
intothe
🌊river!
5
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Page 6
The
👹troll
🏊swam away
to find
a
🆕new
🌉bridge.
The
3️⃣three
🐐goats
😋ate
the
🌿green grass.
😋Munch,
😋munch,
😋munch.
🔚The end.
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🃏PawSteps · Story Tools
Story Vocabulary Board
✂️ Introduce these BEFORE reading. Practise the trip-trap stamps: quiet 🤏, medium ✋, THUNDER 💪!
🤏🐐small goat
✋🐐middle goat
💪🐐big goat
👹troll
🌉bridge
🌿green grass
🌊river
🥾trip-trap
⏳wait
💨butt / push
💦splash
😋munch
🧠PawSteps · After the Story
Size, Order & Yes/No
📏 Write 1 (small), 2 (middle), 3 (big) under the goats — then circle who crossed the bridge FIRST.
🔢 Story order — write 1, 2, 3, 4.
💪🐐💨👹The big goat butts the troll
🤏🐐🥾The small goat crosses
🐐🐐🐐🌿The goats munch the grass
✋🐐🥾The middle goat crosses
Did the troll live under the bridge?👹🌉YESNO
Did the troll eat the small goat?👹🤏YESNO
Did the big goat splash the troll into the river?💪💦YESNO
💬 Talk about it: the small goats had a clever plan — what was it? Why did it work?
🌉PawSteps · After the Story
Bridge Game & Retell!
🥾 The Trip-Trap Bridge Game — movement card:
Make a bridge (a line of cushions, a bench, tape on the floor)! 🌉
Cross as the small goat (tiptoe 🤫) · the middle goat (stomp 🥾) · the BIG goat (THUNDER STAMPS 💥)
One player is the troll: "WHO is trip-trapping over MY bridge?!"
Swap roles until everyone has been the troll!
🎨 Design a kinder bridge! Draw a bridge with something nice for the troll too — maybe a little house or a fishing spot?
🗣️ Retell the story — draw or write one thing in each box. Stamp the rhythm as you go!
