The True Story of the Three Little Pigs: Differentiated Compare & Contrast

Struggling to incorporate differentiation into your daily lessons? Cubing is an excellent strategy when doing so in your classroom! When responding to literature through cubing, students are given control of their learning! Cubing is an excellent way to differentiate lessons across subject areas. In reading instruction, it gives the teacher the ability to give an independent or group task to students while providing them with multiple opportunities to show what they've mastered. Students love options! Considering Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, students are given options of ways to respond that cater to these. This lesson, using John Scieszka & Lane Smith's "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" and Mark Teague's "The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf," does just that! CLICK HERE for an interactive class activity on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences! This lesson will show students how they learn best and help guide them to "just right" cube options. Within this comprehension and writing extension pack you will find: -Vocabulary cards to build schema and introduce text - Teacher instructions on how to use the cube - A differentiation cube that exercises making text to text connections from the mentor text. Cube includes six different ways to respond that assess a student's ability to recognize and describe text-to-self connections with events in the story. Prompts or possible responses to literature are reflective of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences such as linguistic, artistic, etc. - Six response to literature recording sheets that support each cube prompt. -A "standards met" poster to display on your bulletin board Thank you for downloading! Remember to leave feedback on how this worked in your classroom! Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.8 Credits: KG Drops of Jupiter Font KG Always a Good Time Font KG SecondChances Chalkboard Font KG Chasing Cars Font D'Nealian Style Family Fonts-Fonts4Teachers Stella Jumbo Papers and Clip Art-Teaching Super Power Dice Template/Blank Dice/Dice Dots Clip Art-Dancing Crayon Designs Fall Festival Clip Art- Digi Web Studios The Three Little Pigs Clip Art- Scrappin Doodles Doodle Frames Bunch-Mad Clips Factory Colorful Corner Frames- Creative Clips Digital Clip Art- Krista Wallden