IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

This week during reader’s workshop, we have been learning what it means to compare and contrast two books. On Monday, we read the story Cinderella and followed it with the funny spin off story Chickenrella! Students noticed a lot that the stories had in common, as well as things that were different about the two stories. We had a conversation about the importance of finding similarities and differences in stories and students applied this new skill to their independent reading!

Today, we read the story The Gingerbread Man and The Stinky Cheese Man. We created a concept map that visually showed how these stories compared and in what ways they are different. I was amazing by some of the noticing that students made. Tomorrow, we will create a different kind of map that compares the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty and the story What Really Happened to Humpty?

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