Comparing fiction and nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" text sets
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A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts
This lesson plan features an example of a cumulative literary experience or “literature unit” structured around a text set made up of conceptually-related fiction and nonfiction for reading aloud and for independent reading.
Students will:
- engage in a comparative study of diverse illustrated retellings of a traditional tale as well as modern revisions of this traditional tale.
- extend this comparative study by exploring connections with selected realistic fiction and nonfiction texts to expand their understandings of character development.
- discover and practice some of the reading-thinking strategies used by experienced readers to comprehend, evaluate, interpret, and appreciate texts.
- engage in independent reading experiences at school and at home.
- move from an analysis of single texts to a synthesis of the central ideas uncovered in the multiple texts included in the text set compiled for this literature unit.
- engage in a collaborative writing project to compose their own retelling of this traditional tale based on the synthesis experience that concluded their extensive comparative study of diverse genres.
Readwritethink provides a list of books about wolves and traditional and modern retellings of “Little Red Riding Hood,” as well as links to teacher resources and graphic organizers for students. This lesson also suggests extension activities and provides links to helpful web resources.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.02: Recognize and relate similar vocabulary use and concepts across experiences with texts.
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
Grade 2
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
Kindergarten
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.
