A Goat's Trick

A Goat’s Trick is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a farmer bringing her sick goat into the house. The goat started munching on her pyjamas, socks, shirts, and furniture. The farmer decided the goat was not sick and sent it back outside, but the goat hid under the bed. When the farmer left to get a rope and went under the bed, the goat tricked her and went on top of the bed! The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrative text.

A Goat’s Trick is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the changes in font style like bold and illustrative text as well as the purpose, layout, and design of a sequence. There is a story sequence at the end of the book to demonstrate the order of events. An activity on drawing and writing about other things the goat could have munched is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (farmer), high-frequency words (her), and positional words (inside). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for sentence beginnings, full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on digraph wh (where), word family oat (goat), and suffix ing (looking).

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