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In your own words, what was the book about?

Who was the main character? What was he/she like?

Did you like the book? Why was this?

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Colour in the Adjectives.

Dark

Brown

Cat

Table

Kind

Nice

Terrible

Talk

Silly

Pencil

Brown

Orange

Yes

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With as many adjectives as you can!!

Add more arrows if you need to...

Brown

Small

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Fluffy

Huge

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The Gruffalo.

True or False?

True False

The Gruffalo had a wart on his nose.

The mouse and fox were friends.

The Gruffalo was pink with stripes.

The mouse was black and white.

The wood was deep and dark. The Gruffalo had twenty toes.

The mouse passed a stream.

The snake already knew of the Gruffalo.

The snake lived in a logpile house.

The Gruffalo had blue eyes. It was raining.

The mouse had knobbly knees.

The Gruffalo had knobbly knees.

The mouse told the Gruffalo that he was the scariest creature in the wood.

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Colour in the Nouns.

Bad

Big

Fox

Mouse

Noisy

Cross

Gruffalo

Snake

Alone

Just

House

Mouse

Great

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Gruffalo Goat Game

Fame Fox Foot

mitton more mouse

snake sound snare

old own owl

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The Gruffalo.

Fill in the missing words:

A mouse took a stroll through the deep ____________ wood.

A fox saw the ____________ and the mouse looked ___________.

“Where are you going to, little ____________ mouse?

Come and have lunch in my underground house.”

“It’s terribly kind of you, Fox, but no ----

I’m going to have lunch with a ______________ .

“A gruffalo? What’s a gruffalo”

“A gruffalo! Why, didn’t you know?

He has terrible tusks, and terrible _________ and terrible teeth in

his terrible jaws.”

“Where are you meeting him?”

“Here by these ____________,

And his favourite food is roasted _________ .”

“Roasted fox! I’m off” Fox ____________ .

“Goodbye, little mouse,” and away he sped.

“Silly old Fox! Doesn’t he know, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo?”

Dark claws mouse fox good

Rocks brown Gruffalo said

The Gruffalo Wordsearch.

G R U F F A L O Y T

A K S O W E R W O O

S L F X P O S L P E

F W H D L J T Y K S

M O U S E Y R T G I

H O E Q M L E U V T

B D A R K T A O X E

N L E J B A M O D E

M I U N D T K J Z T

W G V C L A W S A H

Words to find:

GRUFFALO WOOD

MOUSE FOX

OWL DARK

CLAWS TEETH

STREAM TOES

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Colour in the Verbs.

Bad

Big

Chat

Walk

Talk

Cross

Looking

Scare

Alone

Just

Fly

Slither

Great

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Add the characters together and write your answer in the space...

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The Gruffalo Reading

Comprehension.

Tick the right box:

Who took a stroll in the wood?

A Fox

A mouse

What colour was the mouse?

Brown

White

Black

Did the mouse say the Gruffalo had

terrible tusks, claws and teeth?

Yes

No

How was the wood described...?

Deep & dark

Big & bright

Cold & old

Did the animals think the mouse looked... bad

good

What colour were the Gruffalo’s prickles?

Pink

Brown

purple

Did the Gruffalo really exist? Yes

No

Did the mouse tell the animals that the

Gruffalo had two warts at the end of his

nose?

Yes

No

Helpful hints:

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Means and

Little

Kind

Terrible

Roasted

Sped

Claws

Exist

Cut out the characters and order them by putting the smallest first...

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In the box below, can you draw your favourite part of the story?

I liked it when