Book Title: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Author: Jon Scieszka
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Summary: The story of the three little pigs as told by the big bad wolf's point of view. It's all a misunderstanding when the wolf 'blows down' the pig's houses. All he wanted was a cup of sugar for his granny's birthday cake but he had a terrible sneezing cold that really blew down the houses.
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 2, Craft and Structure #6- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
How it Connects:Hearing the story from the wolf's point of view is perfect for the students to see that there is always two sides to every story and how the story can be very different from what we think we know.
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details #3- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
How it Connects: The wolf not only has a different story, but because of this, he has some feelings no one has considered before, if the wolf was framed, he probably feels bad that everyone thinks he did something wrong when he didn't. The students can make this inferences.
3 Tiers of Vocab: 1)house, sticks 2) sugar, neighbor 3) spoil, reporters
How Children Use Book: Individual
Meets Needs: Gifted students can use this book to talk about how to build sturdy structures
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