What do the children think the ending might be? Ask them to think about who might come to help Red Riding Hood and Grandma and what could be done to get rid of the Wolf. Later, in pairs ...

Red Riding Hood is eventually eaten by the wolf, but she’s saved by a heroic woodcutter. Again, it’s a happy ending, and a relatively toothless story, despite the presence of a human-eating wolf.

Practise the two-part section, at the end of Verse 3, when the Wolf snarls at Grandma and she screams. Reception / Year 1 Talk about what Red Riding Hood says to the Wolf: ‘What big eyes you ...