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Title: A Lesson
On Comparing & Contrasting Using Cinderella's Rat
by Elizabeth Cook
Grades: 2-3
Objectives:
1. The student will be able to compare and contrast two different
versions of Cinderella.
2. The student will be able to use a Venn diagram to make comparisons.
3. The student will be able to make predictions about a story.
Review or read the fairy tale, Cinderella with students. If reviewing
the story write on the board or overhead- characters, set, plot, and have
students give that information. Next read Cinderella"s Rat by Susan
Meddaugh, Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Read the first page (page 3) and stop.
Ask students to predict what surprises the rat may face. Write these
predictions down on chart paper, the board , or on the overhead.
Finish the book. Compare the predictions the students made with what
happens in the book. Now draw your Venn Diagram either on a chart,
the board, or overhead. have students compare the story of Cinderella
with Cinderella" Rat. Be sure to cover plot, setting, and characters. After
the lesson have some cheese and crackers!
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