I was so excited to pop into a colleague’s classroom today and see a piece of my Lil’ Red Riding Hood resource being used with her students. I have to give her complete credit because if it weren’t for her I might not have created the resource. She was planning on using folk tales and fairytales in her literacy lessons. She had a few texts, but wanted to do more with them that just read them aloud. We had been discussing her plans when I offered to make something specific to the alternate Lil’ Red Riding Hood tale that she had in her curriculum and was looking to use. I spent much of my Christmas break creating the item and delivered the lesson plans to her upon our return. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-for-Second-Grade-Classrooms-1625612
One of the elements of the resource is a writing page that allows the students to change elements of the story such as the setting, the food she brings to Grandma, the character she meets on the way, and how these characters respond to each other. It’s a cloze passage and creates a writing piece that even our challenged students can find success. My colleague had told me that she had used it and that the students really liked writing their own stories. She also invited me to come in and see what they created. I looked forward to it.
Well, today I got to read those pieces. How fun! They had Lil’ Red in Mexico with pizza, in Seattle with cereal, and more. Below, you’ll see some of the ones that I had time to take a few pictures of.
Not only do I enjoy reading their cute stories, but I’m incredibly honored that my colleague found my work purposeful, fun, and valuable enough to use it in her lessons; not to mention that she liked the results and is now showing them off in her classroom.
Now she’s requesting sets for the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, and for Cinderella. Guess what I’m working on during my spring break. Yea!
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