Comparing

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Comparing Contrasting Cinderella Stories
By Amanda Baker
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Analyze Learners

• The unit plan is centered for third grade, ages
  nine and ten.
• Children will already have to know how to print
  letters and words legibly.
• Children should have had some previous experience
  with graphic organizers.

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State Objectives

• RLA.3.1.3 Use reading skills and strategies to
  comprehend a variety of literary passages and
  texts.
• RLA.3.1.4 Use comprehension skills to understand
  a story.
• RLA.3.1.6 Use graphic organizers and
  visualization techniques to interpret
  information.
• RLA.3.1.12 Compare connections between characters
  or simple events in a literary work in own life
  and other cultures.
• RLA.3.2.3 Use paragraph format to write
  compositions.

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Selecting Methods, Media, and Materials

• Websites used
• http//www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html
• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/LACompareContrastCi
  nderella23.html
• http//www.acs.ucalgary.ca/dkbrown/authors.html
• http//jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/isu/home/isustus
  ec.html

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Materials

• Markers/Crayons
• Glue
• Scissors
• Paper
• Pencil
• Book

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Utilize Media Materials

• Day 1 Comprehension
• Read Cinderella to the class and ask a series of
  questions about the story.
• Give them the second version of Cinderella to
  read on their own.
• After they read the story ask questions on the
  differences of the two Cinderella stories.

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Utilize Media Materials

• Day 2 Compare and Contrast
• Define to the class what it means to compare and
  contrast.
• Make a list, as a class, of things that compare
  and contrast from the two Cinderella stories.
• Students will then write some compare and
  contrasting things on their own.
• Then ask the class get a partner and compare and
  contrast each other.

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Utilize Media Materials

• Day 3 Graphic Organizers
• Show the class an example of a graphic organizer
  and the different types.
• Do a sample organizer together as a class.
• Have the class do a compare and contrasting
  organizer with the list from Cinderella.

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Utilize Media Materials

• Day 4 Literary Passages
• Give the class a list of literary passages that
  defines what they are.
• Go over them as a class and give examples of each
  literary passage.
• Have the class identify books in the room with
  the correct literary passage.
• The class will then complete a worksheet of
  literary passages and examples.

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Utilize Media Materials

• Day 5 Writing a correct paragraph
• Read an example paragraph to the class.
• Describe to the class what the beginning, middle,
  and ending sentences are.
• Write an example paragraph as a class.
• The class will then write their own paragraph
  with their own ideas of a modern day Cinderella.
• The class will then put all of the paragraphs
  together to create a modern day Cinderella story.

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Require Learner Participation

• As always a teacher should be very enthusiastic!
• To help keep the class focused and on task I will
  give them goals to strive for.

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Evaluate Revise

• Comprehending what they read.
• Participating in class discussion.
• Comparing and contrasting two Cinderella stories.
• Finishing a graphic organizer.
• Writing a correct paragraph.
• Being able to label literary passages.