The tiger child Book

Lovely, traditional folk tale about a baby tiger who leaves his jungle life to live in a nearby village with humans- where he becomes a house cat. The moral of the story being how cats first became pets.

I read this story with my year 1 class, during the traditional tale sequence (English). It was a great alternative to stories previously covered such as Cinderella, The Three Billy Goats Gruff etc. Children were able to follow the story well and enjoyed joining in with repetitive language used. All children, including EAL children were able to understand and use languge from the story.

Children emphathised well with the characters and produced some fantastic descriptive writing about why the tiger child preferred living in the village. They also enjoyed paired role play (tiger child and villager) of key events in the story.

We also used illustrations in the story to paint a tiger as part of the IPC topic- animals around the world.