Book Title: The Magic Porridge Pot
Author: n/a
Illustrator: Val Biro
Genre: Traditional Literature
Summary: A young poor girl is collecting berries for her and her mother for winter supper and an old witch come along and tells the girl to watch her magic pot. The witch tells the girl if she eve gets hungry to say the magic words to cook food and magic words to stop cooking. The girls mother is too excited to use the pot that she forgets the words to stop the pot from cooking and porridge keeps cooking until the whole town is covered in food.
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details # 2- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
How it Connects: Students can apply this story to the standard by noting that the main idea is the pot has magic to make food when given the instructions and when they are not followed, the characters create a messy situation.
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Craft and Structure #5 - Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
How it Connects: Students can say the moral or lesson the author was trying to tech was to listen and not be greedy when the pot kept making food because the girl's mother didn't remember the magic words.
3 Tiers of Vocab: 1) mother, woods 2)witch, magic 3)village, porridge
How Children Use Book: Centers
Meets Needs: Gifted students could see how long it would really take a village to eat the amount of porridge the pot made or how much porridge is needed to fill an entire room in a house.
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