Little Red Riding Hood Plot Structure

Setting: the forest and Grandma's house. Narrative context: Little Red Riding Hood is traveling through the forest to visit her grandmother who is sick. Characters: Little Red Riding Hood, Big Bad Wolf, Grandma, the woodsman. Conflict: Big Bad Wolf tricks Little Red Riding Hood because he wants to eat her.

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling action

• Inciting incident

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Little Red Riding Hood's mother sends her with a basket of food to visit her sick grandmother.

• Inciting Incident

• Exposition

• climax

• Raising action

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Little Red Riding Hood encounters the wolf in the forest.

• Big Bad Wolf tricks her into telling him where Grandma lives.

• Little Red Riding Hood arrives at Grandma's house to find "Grandma" sick in bed (who is actually Big Bad Wolf disguised as Grandma after having eaten her).

• Inciting incident

• climax

• Rising action

• Falling action

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CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Big Bad Wolf jumps out of bed, revealing his true identity and eating Little Red Riding Hood

• Resolution

• falling action

• Rising action

• climax

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CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The woodsman appears to save the day, by cutting open the wolf's belly to let Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood out.

• Falling action

• Resolution

• climax

• Exposition

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood are saved and they, go along with the woodsman, fill the wolf's belly with stones so that he cannot eat anyone else.

• Falling action

• Resolution

• climax

• Exposition

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the moral of the story?

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2