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Mixed-Up Wolf Story: The Little Gray Wolf and Red Riding Hood

Reader's theater script for 13 parts retells Little Red Riding Hood from a little gray wolf's point of view, with a teacher guide and follow-up activities on character motivation, summarizing and comparing fairy-tale versions.
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Grades 1–3, Elementary
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Updated Oct 02, 2026

Subject
Creative Arts, Art, Drama
Topic
play, little red riding hood
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Theater - A Mixed-up Bedtime Story: The Little Gray Wolf and Red Riding Hood is a play written with 13 parts.

The play is perfect for students in 1st-3rd grades in many types of learning environments by either reading the text out loud or acting it out. The resource includes a Teacher Guide to maximize student learning and help with teacher instruction.

In addition to the acting roles, students can assist with many responsibilities in putting on such a terrific play!

One interesting activity described in the Teacher Guide is to compare and contrast the original story of Little Red Riding Hood with this mixed-up version. Just how similar and how different are the two plays? Children will enjoy thinking about this question and sharing their ideas.

Play Summary: The play begins with a mother telling her children a bedtime story of a little gray wolf visiting her grandmother. The wolf’s mother warns him to be careful. Doesn't everyone know the woodcutter and Red Riding Hood want wolves for pets? The wolf travels along and meets many woodland animals (e.g., a frog, snake, rabbit, and chipmunk) who each offer their advice on being safe. When the wolf finally arrives at Grandmother’s, where is Red Riding Hood and will she trick him?

You’ll have to read the rest of the story to find out how the story ends. Will they live happily ever after?

Many Common Core Standards involving Reading Literature can be taught with this resource.

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A total of 15 pages.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Compare this mixed-up version with the traditional Little Red Riding Hood tale
  • Explain what motivates each character in the play
  • Summarize the story from beginning to ending

Teaching tips

  • The vocabulary preview in the teacher guide could be introduced before students rehearse their parts.
  • Extension ideas in the guide include a Venn diagram comparison and writing an original mixed-up fairy tale or alternate ending.

Skills covered

  • Reading aloud with expression — students perform one of the 13 speaking parts
  • Identifying fairy-tale elements — students find the talking animals, make-believe events and happy ending
  • Summarizing — students retell the story in four parts on an activity page

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Core concepts

  • Reader's theater
  • Fairy tales
  • Character motivation
  • Compare and contrast
  • Summarizing

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