Curricular Text Set: Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
Audience: Third graders at grade level as a whole.
Purpose: Determining the central message, lesson, or moral of a story and understanding the characters broadens our understanding of literature and diverse cultures.
Common Core Standards Addressed:
Reading:
RL.2 Central message
RL.3 Character analysis
Writing:
W.3 (A-D) Narrative
Essential questions:
1. What lessons can we learn from reading fairy tales, fables, folktales, tall tales,and myths?
2. Why do fairy tales, fables, folktales, tall tales, and myths get passed down in cultures?
3. How do the character’s traits affect their actions and events in the story?
4.How does my point of view differ from the author?
Brown, M. (1975). Stone Soup. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Lexile Measure: AD550L
Description: This book tells the folk tale of three soldiers that are in seek of food and shelter. At first the village doesn’t trust the soldiers and hides all of the food. Soldiers politely ask for help but the villagers say they have no food to give them. The soldiers then have the brightest idea, to make stone soup!
Information Book
Owings, L. (2015). What Are Legends, Folktales, and other Classic Stories? Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing.
Description: Description: This book introduces the meaning behind legends, folktales, and other stories like fables; and compares the differences between these types of stories.
Lexile measure: 490L
Reading grade level: Second to Fourth grade
Owings, L. (2015). What Are Legends, Folktales, and other Classic Stories? Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing.
Description: Description: This book introduces the meaning behind legends, folktales, and other stories like fables; and compares the differences between these types of stories.
Lexile measure: 490L
Reading grade level: Second to Fourth grade
Fiction Books
Tonatiuh, D. (2016). The Princess and the Warrior. New York, NY: Abrams books for young readers.
Description: This is a picture book that tells the love story of a warrior and a princess in the old aztec world. This folktale is the popular story of how two volcanoes in Mexico came to be.
Lexile measure: 770L
Reading grade level: Third to Fifth
Tonatiuh, D. (2016). The Princess and the Warrior. New York, NY: Abrams books for young readers.
Description: This is a picture book that tells the love story of a warrior and a princess in the old aztec world. This folktale is the popular story of how two volcanoes in Mexico came to be.
Lexile measure: 770L
Reading grade level: Third to Fifth
DePaola, T. (1983). The Legend of the Bluebonnet. New York, NY: G.P. Putman’s Sons
Description: This book tells a Comanche Indian traditional story about how the flower bluebonnet came to be. The bluebonnet flower is also the state flower of Texas, making it quite a marvelous story to tell where kids can learn traditional folktales of how a wild flower came to be in the hills of Texas.
Lexile measure: 680L
Reading grade level: K-5grade
Audio Books
Mandela, N. (2009). Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales [Audiobook].
Description: Nelson Mandela's African Folktales audiobook is an incredible compilation of twenty two stories from the thirty two stories originally published in a book format. The audiobook includes music to accompany the re-tale of the stories making it a more sensational experience.
Lexile measure: couldn't find a lexile level
Reading grade level: Couldn't find it
Mandela, N. (2009). Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales [Audiobook].
Description: Nelson Mandela's African Folktales audiobook is an incredible compilation of twenty two stories from the thirty two stories originally published in a book format. The audiobook includes music to accompany the re-tale of the stories making it a more sensational experience.
Lexile measure: couldn't find a lexile level
Reading grade level: Couldn't find it
Burleigh, M. (2001). Grandmother's Stories [Audiobook].
Description: This collection of stories are told having the grandmother as the main character in the story. Most times the stories present the grandmothers as powerful figures and with this they move away from the stereotypical mother figure.
Lexile measure: couldn't find a lexile level
Reading grade level: third grade
Video
[August house/Story Cove]. (2009, April 30). The Magic Pot (Animated Stories for Kids) [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYRo0o1sZ9o&t=6s Description: This video shows the story of the magic pot in an animated video format. This is a great format for kids to see folktales from a different country in a media they most likely would be familiar with; which is youtube. This video format folktale can be seen as an entire class at the same time and have discussion right after on the video. Lexile level: couldn't find a lexile level |
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