Thursday, April 13, 2017

The Princess and the Pea By: Lauren Child

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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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