Goldilocks and The Three Bears Text Talk Lesson
Retold and illustrated By: James Marshall
Date of publication: 1998
Summary: Goldilocks was sent to buy muffins for her mother but along the way she sees a house and is curious about what is inside. She lets herself in and eats their porridge, sits in their chairs, and falls asleep in their bed. When the bears come home to find the mess and goldilocks still asleep upstairs, they became very angry. Papa bear starts to yell which wakes up Goldilocks and she runs away.
Cover: Show the cover of the book and discuss the title. What do you already know about this story? Ok, lets read to see if this story will be similar or different.
(show pictures after each stop)
Page 2: Do you think Goldilocks will listen to her mother? Why? Or why not?
Page 6: What do you think the word Scalding means? Scalding: Something very hot.
Page 8: Do you think it was polite to walk in to The Bears’ house without knocking? Why not?
Page 9: “How rude!”
Page 12: What is a parlor? Parlor: it’s like a living room.
Page 18: What do you think The Bears are going to do?
Page 23: What does the word smithereens mean? Smithereens: very small broken pieces.
Page 27: Oh no! They found Goldilocks! What do you think she is going to do?
Wrap-Up: What could Goldilocks have done to stay out of all that trouble? Do you think that Goldilocks will ever take the short cut again?
ISBN: 9780140563665
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Text Talk Lesson on Tops & Bottoms
By: Janet Stevens
DOP: 1995
ISBN: 0-15-292851-0
Summary: This story is about a very wealthy but lazy bear and a very poor but smart rabbit. The story begins by the reader seeing how lazy Bear is and how hungry Hares and his family are. The Hares make a deal with Bear that if they can use his land to plant a garden they will do all the work and when it comes time to harvest he can have half the crop and they will get half the crop. Hare asks bear weather he wants tops or bottoms and when bear says tops the scheme begins. Hare plants carrots, beets and turnips and when it comes time to harvest bear got all the leafy tops and the Hares got all the delicious carrots, beets and turnips (the bottoms). The similar thing happens the next two seasons until bear finally stops being lazy and does the work himself.
(show pictures after each stop)
Cover: Read the title and show the picture on the cover and have students discuss what it might be about.
Page 1: What does wealth mean? Wealth: large amount of money.
Page 2: Do you know what debt is? Debt: when you owe someone something you have debt.
Do you have any ideas about what Hare and Mrs. Hare might do? Ok let’s find out what happens!
Page 11: Uh-oh! Look at the piles what do you notice about Bears pile? Did Hare trick Bear?
Page 15: Do you think it’s fair that Hare and his family are doing all the work and Bear just
sleeps all the time?
Page 18: What did Hare do this time? Did he cheat bear again? That’s not very nice.
Page 20: Do you know what it means to scowl at some one? Scowl: it means to look at someone
in a mean way.
Do you think Hare will be honest this time or will he trick bear again?
Page 24: Look at Bear’s house. What do you notice?
Page 27: So what happened this time? Did Bear get any good vegetables?
Page 30: What do you notice about Bear’s house now?
Wrap up: In what way did Hare help Bear by tricking him?
Do you think Bear will continue to be lazy or will he turn into a smart business Bear like
his dad?
Is it fair to have someone else do all your work for you?
In what ways will you make sure that you don’t end up like that lazy bear?
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DRTA Lesson:
The Garden
By Arnold Lobel
RE: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
I like the vocabulary you chose to teach, Ahsley. I think you decided to highlight some important words in such a rich story. I also liked the fact that you decided to highlight the words during the reading of the story not after.
When do you plan to show the pictures in your lesson? You did point out that it is an important point that needs to be handled with care, but you do not seem to consider showing pictures and the timing of it your lesson.
Most of the questions you ask are prediction questions. That is fine as long as the questions help children wrap their minds around the story plot. We should also ask questions that check on their comprehension.
~Dr. Ari
Ashley,
Where is your Frog and Toad DRTA lesson plan? It was due last night.
~Dr. Ari
(3.8.2010)
RE: Text Talk Part 3
GReat lesson.
Do you introduce the story by showing the cover and reading the title?
In your wrap-up you should extend the moral of the story to the lives of the children.
Remember to show pictures at every stop following a section’s Text Talk.
~Dr. Ari