La competencia 6-pack Author: Barbara Beveridge ISBN: 9780790328492 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: I Strategy/Skill: Comparing and contrasting, Comprehension strategies Genre: Folk Tale/Traditional Story Theme/Topic: Environment Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This text is a folk tale in which a tiger is outwitted by a frog.  It describes how the small but smart frog is able to scare away a tiger.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of using illustrations to understand text and comparing and contrasting.  The storyline, illustration style, and features of a traditional tale provide opportunities for making connections between this text and The Clumsy Tiger (and with tales from other cultures).  It provides excellent opportunities for expressive reading and retelling.

Text features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the clear narrative structure
• the features of a traditional tale
• the way the illustrations support and extend the ideas
• the direct address to the reader and the layout features (text placement, italics, and boldprint) that add emphasis
• the traditional opening that sets the tale in a distant time
• the talking animals
• the battle of wits between the characters
• the humorous ending
• the tricky nature of the frog
• the adjectives – busy, loud, small, tiny, yellow
• the comparative and superlative adjectives – higher, highest; farther, farthest
• the confrontational dialogue
• the use of ellipses on page 5 to indicate a pause
• the “tion” ending in “competition”
• Possible challenges
  • the words – farther, farthest
  • the “air” sound for “ar” in “scaring”
  • visualizing how the frog tricks the tiger

For more information please see our Lesson Plan