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A Lesson on Little Pink Riding Hood Grade: Grade 3
Subject: English Language Arts
Created by: Justin Duncan
Lesson Length: 1 hour
Keywords/Tags: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary
Lesson Description: This lesson focuses on learning and understanding new vocabulary words, along with improving reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.
Common Core Standards Covered with This Lesson
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
 
     
     
 
Lesson Content: Reading
Instructions: Please read the following reading passage as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the passage if needed.

Little Pink Riding Hood

Little Pink Riding Hood loved to wear pink clothes. That is why she really liked her special coat. 

One day she put on her coat. She picked up a basket of food for her grandmother.Her grandmother was sick. Little Pink Riding Hood loved her grandmother. She especially liked how her grandmother always sent her cards, even when it wasn’t a special day. “You make me feel special, grandma,” she said every time she saw her.“You are special!” grandma would say

Little Pink Riding Hood walked through the woods. She ate some of her grandmother’s cookies, which she had baked and covered with pink icing. While she was eating a cookie, she met a wolf. The wolf asked her where she was going. She said, “I am taking food to my grandmother. Would you like a cookie?

He thanked her but told her he did not like cookies. The wolf said she was a very sweet child. She smiled. He asked where her grandmother lived. She told him that she did not have good map skills but that it was a place she could always find by looking for pink. It’s a pink house. “My grandma painted it pink to make me happy.”

“I wish someone cared that much about me,” said the wolf. 

Then she met a bluebird. The bird asked her, “Have you seen a big, bad wolf?” “Well, I saw a wolf,” she answered. Then she explained.

The bird grabbed a cookie and flew up into a tree. “I thought wolves were dangerous and birds were helpful,” Little Pink Riding Hood said. “What a surprise.

 
     
     
 
Task 1: Vocabulary Activity (40 points)
Instructions: Please complete the following vocabulary activity by choosing the correct meaning of each word selected from the passage and use of each word correctly in a sentence.

Vocabulary Questions

Word/Phrase: skills | Tier: 2 | Points: 10
Q1 Little Pink Riding Hood talks about skills, "She told him that she did not have good map skills but that it was a place she could always find by looking for pink." What are "skills"?
A. directions
B. thoughts
C. talents *
D. jobs

Choose the sentence that uses the word "skills" correctly.
A. Studying gives you skills in school. *
B. The student didn't skills while he wrote his paper.
C. My friend Adam wrote skills to do his test.
D. At the beach, there are many skills in the water.

Word/Phrase: especially | Tier: 3 | Points: 10
Q2 "She especially liked how her grandmother always sent her cards, even when it wasn’t a special day." What does the word "especially" mean in this sentence?
A. most *
B. least
C. equally
D. really

Which one of the sentences below uses the word "especially" correctly?
A. The boy and his dog especially walked to the park.
B. I especially made good grades today!
C. Out of all the desserts she liked, she especially liked chocolate cake. *
D. My phone was especially charged all day.

Word/Phrase: special | Tier: 3 | Points: 10
Q3 In the sentence, "That is why she really liked her special coat", what does the word "special" mean?
A. better
B. pretty
C. pink
D. unique *

Which one of these sentences uses the word "special" correctly?
A. Dad cuts the grass special every Sunday.
B. Walking on the beach with my mom made it a special day. *
C. My parents and I drive special wherever we go.
D. My homework is special when I don't have any.

Word/Phrase: surprise | Tier: 2 | Points: 10
Q4 What does the word "surprise" mean in the sentence, “What a surprise."
A. a terrible thing
B. something fun
C. dissapointment
D. something unexpected *

Which one of the sentences below uses the word "surprise" correctly?
A. I didn't know the homework's surprise.
B. I surprise studied everyday after school.
C. Getting an A on the test was very much a surprise. *
D. The student's didn't surprise when the bell rang.

Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4,
 
     
     
 
Task 2: Discussion Activity (30 points)
Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic.

  Topic Title Replies

Message Pretty in Pink
Little Pink Riding Hood's grandmother painted her house pink and would send her grandaughter Little Pink Riding Hood cards.

Why did she do these things?


Sent on: Oct 8, 2015 by: Justin Duncan
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Message Into the woods
Why was Little Pink Riding Hood visiting her grandmother anyway? Why go through all that trouble of possibly getting lost in the woods and running into animals? 

Would you have gone all the way through the woods if you were her?

 


Sent on: Oct 8, 2015 by: Justin Duncan
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Message Wolves and birds
Why do you think Little Pink Riding Hood was so surprised by the bird? 

Do you think maybe it's because not all wolves are mean and not all birds are nice?

List some animals that you think are mean and some animals you think are nice. Tell me why.


Sent on: Oct 8, 2015 by: Justin Duncan
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Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6,
 
     
     
 
Task 3: Writing Activity (30 points)
Instructions: Write at least 3 sentences explaining,
why you think it was important for the author to write this story when Little Red Riding Hood already exists?
Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2,
 
     

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