Book Title: The Princess and the Pea
Author: Lauren Child
Illustrator: Polly Borland
Genre: Traditional Literature
Summary: A young prince wishes to marry a princess, but not just any princess, she needs to be a real princess. The only way to tell if the girl who comes to the castle one stormy night is a real princess, she must sleep on a pea covered by over 20 mattresses and if she can feel the pea, she is a real princess.
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 2, Key Ideas and Details #1- Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
How it Connects: Students can follow along with the story and perform the following task of asking and answeing questions (ex: what was placed under the mattress?, how do we know she is a real princess?)
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 1, Craft and Structure #6- Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
How it Connects: Students can use the pictures to infer the text of the story
3 Tiers of Vocab: 1) city, real 2) princess 3) thunder, lightning
How Children Use Book: Individual
Meets Needs: Gifted students can use this to see what would happen to a pea in real life if mattresses were stacked on top of it
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