Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Title: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Genre: Traditional Literature
Author: Katherine Eaves
Major Awards: None
Age Group: Preschool-Kindergarten

This is the traditional story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In this story, a family of three bears lives in a house and decides to take a walk one day. While they are gone, a girl named Goldilocks wanders through the woods and happens upon their home. While there, Goldilocks wrecks havoc on the home. At the end, the three bears return home to find their home a disaster. They find Goldilocks in the youngest bears' bed, and Goldilocks leaps out of it. This frightens her, and she promises to never snoop in a house again. 

I definitely plan to use this book in my future classroom. It is a classic children's novel that children love to have read to them. Aside from that, it teaches children an important lesson on personal property and the importance of not taking what does not belong to them. 

I would say this book is perfect for Preschool through Kindergarten-aged children. It has vibrant illustrations and the plot structure is simple and incredibly predictable. I also think that young children would get many laughs from reading about Goldilocks' antics! 

In my classroom, I think that a fun way to incorporate this story into instruction would be to act it out. This places the students in the characters' shoes and allows students to learn story structure in a kinesthetic way. I could also give the students paper figures of objects/characters from the story, and they would have to create a scene from the story.