Lesson Plans

Text Talk Lesson for Goldilocks and The Three Bears

Retold and Illustrated by James Marshall; Puffin Books 1988

Summary: Goldilocks is a not so sweet little girl who goes into the forest when she is not suppsoed to. She finds an empty cotttage with three of everything. She sits down at the table tatse the porridge and the first one is too hot then second is too cold but the third is just right. Then she goes to the chairs and goes through the same process. Next she goes to the beds and goes through the first too before settling on the third and falling asleep. Then the bears come home and realize that somone is in their house. They follow the trail to Goldilocks in baby bear’s bed and she her sleeping. Then she wakes up and jumps out the window and run away and she never came back.

Comments And Questions:

Cover- Show the cover and ask if any of the students have heard the story. Then being to read.

Page 1-Who is Goldilocks? What doest the neighbor mean? (She is a little girl and the neighbor is saying she is not sweet or nice at all)

Page 2-What is Goldilocks going to do? Do you think that she is going to listen to her mother? (she is not going to listen to her mother she is going to go through the forest. )

Page 6-What does Scalding mean? (it means very very hot!)

Page 8-OH NO!! Is Goldilocks in the Bear’s house? (Yes!!)

Page 15-Whose things does Goldilocks  like? (little baby bear)

Page 19-Oh what is Goldilocks doing? What do you think is going to happen? (she is going to sleep in baby bear’s bed and the bears might come home)

Page 21-Oh the bears came home! Are they happy? (No!)

Page 27-Who Does the baby bear see? Whats going to happen? (He see’s Goldilocks! and they are going to be upset and chase her maybe?)

Page 30-How do you think the bears felt? (Angry, upset, sad, etc.)

Wrap-up: What do you think the bears did? What about Goldilocks? (Let the students consider what happens in the future to the characters. Have the students talk about what Goldilocks did was wrong.)

Show Pictures: Every two to three pages.

Vocabulary:  -smithereens: Fragments or pieces

                                -Tuckered out: really tired

                                -scarcely: barely

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Text to Talk Lesson for Swamp Angel

By Anne Isaacs; Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

Puffin Books, 1994

Summary: Swamp Angel is born and she is taller than her mother as a newborn. By the time she was full grown she was saving the town from tons of disasters. Then a huge bear named Tarnation came to Tennessee before long tons of hunters were lining up to get rid of the bear but all of them would fall. Swamp Angel decides she wants to try and get rid of the bear. Tarnation and Swamp Angel fight for a long time before they are so tired they fall asleep and begin snoring. Eventually Swamp Angel snores so loudly a tree falls over onto Tarnation. Then she takes Tarnation fur and makes it the short grass prairie.

Comments and Questions:

Cover-Show the cover and ask the students what they think the story is going to be about.

Page 1-What do you think she is going to do? Should a newborn baby be taller than their mother?

Page 8-What do you think Swamp Angel is going to do?

Page 12-Oh No! Swamp Angel is going to fight Tarnation the bear!!

Page 16-What is a lasso? (It is a rope) What does determined mean? (It means you really want to do something)

Page 20-How is Swamp Angel going to get out of this?! What is her idea?

Page 26-What was the last tree? Do you think they will ever stop?

Page 32-So what happened to the bear’s fur?

Wrap-up: Ask your students what they thought about the story. Ask them about whether this is a fantasy. Also you should use this book to introduce other regions of the United States as well as consolations.

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DRTA

Frog and Toad

A List

• The story begins on page 4
• Start the DRTA lesson by conducting a walk through of the pictures in the story. Continually ask the students questions about what might be happening. The pick out vocabulary for the students to listen for.

-Vocabulary

-Swamp-(noun) -a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.

-Gasped-(noun) – a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.

Definitions provided by dictionary.com

• After the walk through ask what do ya’ll think is going to happen in the story?
• A student reads pages 4 and 5

1. 1. What is Toad doing? making a list of things to do
2. 2. Has Toad done anything on the list? woke up
3. What is Toad going to do once he has done something on his list? cross it out
4. 4. What else do you think is on Toad’s list? eat, walk etc. let the students guess what is on the list

• A student reads pages 6 through 9

1. 1. What things did toad put on the list? breakfast, get dressed, eat, nap a walk, sleep
2. 2. What has Toad done on his list? breakfast, get dressed and go to Frog’s house
3. What do you think Toad will do next? take a walk with Frog, let the students discus what they believe is going to happen next

• A student reads pages 10 through 13

1. 1. What did Frog and Toad do? They took a walk like the list said to do
2. 2. What happened to the list? It blew away in the wind
3. 3. Oh No! What do you think Toad will do? Chase after it then let the students predict what Toad will do.

• A student reads pages 14 and 15

1. 1. Did Toad chase after the list? Who did? No and Frog
2. Did he catch it? No
3. 3. Is Toad going to continue to do things on the list without having the list? let the students predict what is going to happen

• A student reads pages 16 and 17  (to the end of the story)

1. 1. Who thought Toad was going to remember what he had on his list? have the children raise their hand or say yes or no
2. 2. Who thought he would finish his list? have the children raise their hand or say yes or no
3. 3. Do you think Toad will make a new list tomorrow? Let the students predict about what could possibly occur next