Stone Soup

We recently started our 5th unit in the new CCSS. It is all about fables and folktales from all different parts of the world. We started with all the different varieties of Stone Soup.

We read the orginal Stone Soup and began our study. The CCSS says 2nd graders should.."Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures." So we created a table and used that information to compare the different versions of the story. Some of the information that we put on the table also corresponds to CCSS " Describe the overall structure of a story,"  We put our lessons in a smartboard file. We also talked about all the different countries that the different versions of stone soup has come from. At the end as a piece of assessment we created and used a venn diagram where they picked two of versions and discussed the similarities and differences.

We have been doing a lot with notebooks this year and had been taking notes on all the different versions, so the kids used the table I had discussed earlier to create their venn.  Another CCSS that we have been addressing in their unit is..." Write opinion pieces where they introduce a book, state an opinion, supply reasons to support that opinion, and provide a concluding statement or section." So after they had created their venn, they used that information again to write about their favorite one using an plan we created.