Author Study~Folk Tales

          Folk tales bring back such special memories for me.  When I was a little girl, I loved spending the night with my grandma.   At night  before we would go to sleep, she would always tell me stories.  The Three Little Pigs was one of my favorites along with Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Little Red Riding Hood.  She never seemed to tire of telling those old stories to me over and over!  Now I get to pass on these fun stories to my students and they get to enjoy them too.  We talk about how the one we are reading might be different than the version they have heard or read before. 
          This week we have begun an author study on James Marshall.  He has retold the Three Little Pigs and that is the one we began this week.   We talk about the genre and how to prove that a book is that genre.  We also story map the book after reading.  Next week when we begin the next story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, we will begin charting the books to compare how the story lines might be different or alike.  You will get to see that post later on.  On our story map, I LOVE the thinking from one group of students when they came up with the theme of "if you go around tricking others, it just may happen to you"!!  :)