Support your students in exploring story structure with our hands-on Elements of Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood Flipbook Activity! This engaging resource invites young learners to retell the classic fairy tale by identifying and sequencing key narrative elements. With a familiar story and a blank template for student choice or original writing, this flipbook format makes comprehension and storytelling both visual and fun.

Each flipbook section focuses on the essential elements of the story - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end. Students cut, colour, and sequence the provided images to build a personalised flipbook that reinforces their understanding of narrative structure. Whether used for guided reading, shared storytelling or independent literacy tasks, this activity encourages oral language, comprehension and creative expression.

Elements of Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood Flipbook Activity is ideal for Foundation and Year 1 students and supports early reading, writing, and retelling skills. The included templates are perfect for use during a fairy tale unit or as part of a broader narrative writing program. Students will love seeing their stories come to life as they interact with this familiar tale in a tactile and meaningful way.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Identify key elements of a narrative (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
• ✅ Retell a familiar fairy tale in sequential order
• ✅ Strengthen comprehension and storytelling through hands-on tasks
• ✅ Develop oral and written language using narrative prompts
• ✅ Apply sequencing strategies to build story structure awareness

What’s Included:

• One flipbook template based on Little Red Riding Hood
• One blank template for custom or student-written stories
• Pre-drawn images for sequencing and flap-style pages for assembly

Materials Needed:

• Printed flipbook templates (A4 or A3 as needed)
• Scissors, glue and coloured pencils or markers
• Stapler or folder to collect completed flipbooks

How to Use:

1. Print and cut out both pages of the template and cut along the dotted lines on the cover sheet to create flaps.
2. Glue the two pages together along the marked margin to form the flipbook.
3. Students cut out, colour and arrange the five provided images in story sequence.
4. Students glue the story elements under the appropriate flaps.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as part of a literacy rotation during a fairy tale or narrative unit
• 💡 Have students orally retell the story to a peer using their flipbook as a prompt
• 💡 Display finished flipbooks in a “Fairy Tale Library” corner for peer sharing
• 💡 Pair the activity with a read-aloud and story map to reinforce sequencing
• 💡 Use the blank template as a planning tool for narrative writing tasks

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Print on A3 paper to provide extra space for younger students to write and colour
• 💛 Model the sequencing process using a shared version before students begin independently
• 💛 Encourage full sentences or labelled keywords under each flap for scaffolding
• 💛 Laminate sample flipbooks to reuse year after year as visual examples

Elements of Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood Flipbook Activity is a creative and flexible way to support story sequencing, comprehension and oral language - making it the perfect companion to your narrative literacy lessons.