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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
PawSteps · Symbol-Supported Story · Book 3 · Every word has a picture!
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✔ The classic tale in short, repetitive sentences
✔ Built-in learning: too hot / too cold / just right and big / medium / small
✔ Colour-coded concept cells — red hot, blue cold, green just right
✔ Story vocabulary board + comprehension pages
✔ Size-ordering activity (beds, bowls, chairs!) + retell planner
✔ For SEND classrooms, speech therapy, AAC users & home reading
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🍎PawSteps · For Grown-Ups
Reading This Book
💡 Why this story?
Goldilocks is secretly a concepts lesson wearing a story costume: hot/cold, big/small, hard/soft, and comparing three of everything. The repeated pattern — try daddy's, try mummy's, try baby's — lets children predict what comes next, and predicting is early reading.
🎨 The colour code
Concept cells are coloured: red for too hot/too hard, blue for too cold/too soft, green for just right. Do the actions as you read: fan your mouth for hot 🥵, shiver for cold 🥶, thumbs-up for just right 👌. Bodies remember what ears forget!
🗣️ Voices
Big deep voice for Daddy Bear, medium voice for Mummy Bear, tiny squeaky voice for Baby Bear. Children who won't "read" will often do the voices — that's participation, celebrate it.
💚 Talk it through
Goldilocks goes into a house that isn't hers! The yes/no page ends with a gentle talk-about-it: how did the bears feel? What should Goldilocks have done? A ready-made little lesson on boundaries and sorry.
📖Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Page 1
🕰️Once upon a time
there
were
3️⃣three
🐻bears.
🐻Daddy bear,
🐻Mummy bear
and
🧸Baby bear.
Their
🥣porridge
was
🥵too hot!
They
🚶went for a walk.
🐻 🐻 🧸 🥣 ♨️ 🚶
1
📖Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Page 2
A
👧girl
🏷️called
👱♀️Goldilocks
🚪came in.
She
👅tasted
the
🥣porridge.
🥵Too hot!
🥶Too cold!
👌Just right!
She
😋ate it
💯all up!
👧 🥣🥣🥣 😋
2
📖Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Page 3
She
🪑sat on
the
🪑chairs.
🐘Too big!
🐘Too big!
👌Just right!
💥CRACK!
The
🤏little
🪑chair
🔨broke!
👧 🪑 💥 😮
3
📖Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Page 4
She
🛏️lay on
the
🛏️beds.
🪨Too hard!
☁️Too soft!
👌Just right!
👱♀️Goldilocks
😴fell asleep.
👧 🛏️ 😴 💤
4
📖Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Page 5
The
3️⃣three
🐻bears
🏠came home.
"Someone
😋ate
my
🥣porridge!"
"Someone
🪑sat on
my
🪑chair!"
"Someone
is
😴sleeping
in
🧸MY
🛏️bed!"
🐻 🐻 🧸 😮 😮 😮
5
📖Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Page 6
👱♀️Goldilocks
😳woke up.
She
👀saw
3️⃣three
🐻bears!
She
🏃ran
🏠all the way home.
🔚The end.
👧 😳 🐻🐻🧸 🏃 🏠
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🃏PawSteps · Story Tools
Story Vocabulary Board
✂️ Introduce these words BEFORE reading. The bottom row are the magic concept words — practise the actions: fan for hot 🥵, shiver for cold 🥶, thumbs-up for just right 👌!
👱♀️Goldilocks
🐻Daddy bear
🐻Mummy bear
🧸Baby bear
🥣porridge
🪑chair
🛏️bed
😴sleep
🥵too hot
🥶too cold
👌just right
🏃run away
📏PawSteps · After the Story 1
Big, Medium, Small!
✏️ The bears' things come in three sizes! Write 1 (small), 2 (medium), 3 (big) under each one.
⭕ Circle the one that belongs to BABY bear in each row. How do you know?
❓PawSteps · After the Story 2
Yes or No? & Story Order
1. Were there three bears?3️⃣🐻YESNO
2. Was the first porridge too cold?🥣🥵YESNO
3. Did Goldilocks break the little chair?🪑💥YESNO
4. Did Goldilocks stay for tea with the bears?👧🍵YESNO
🔢 Put the story in order — write 1, 2, 3, 4.
👧😴Goldilocks falls asleep
🐻🐻🧸🚶The bears go for a walk
💬 Talk about it: how did Baby Bear feel about his chair and his porridge? Was it okay for Goldilocks to go inside? What could she say to the bears?
👌PawSteps · After the Story 3
Just Right & Retell!
👌 My "just right" hunt — explore YOUR home like Goldilocks (but ask first! 😄). Find and draw or write:
Something too small for me
🗣️ Now retell the story — draw or write one thing in each box. Use the bear voices!