Giant Soup 6-pack Author: Margaret Mahy ISBN: 9780478120417 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: J Strategy/Skill: Sequencing, Text structure Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Food, Humor Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early-Fluent

Book Summary

Left to fend for himself, a giant brews up a pot of soup, with some unusual ingredients.

Features of the Book

• The use of formal and storybook language.
• Paragraphing that indicates a change in speaker, action, or location.
• The predictable structure of the repeated statement – “This soup is no good.”
• The hidden text in the illustrations.
• The range of ingredients in the text.
• The adverbs – “quickly” and “quietly.”

Purpose

Giant Soup can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• identifying the plot and characters within the story
• recognizing the features of different genres
• writing about the steps in a procedure

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