Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall.This is the original story of Goldilocks and the three bears. This version of the story is the one that most children are told. Goldilocks is sent to another village by her mom to get muffins. On her way Goldilocks takes a shortcut and ends up at the bears house. The bears have just made breakfast and go for a bike ride so their breakfast can cool down. While the bears are away Goldilocks eats their porridge, tries each of their chairs and beds and ends up falling asleep in baby bears bed. The bears came home and were very angry that someone had been in their house. They found Goldilocks and she woke up, jumped out the window and ran home.
I have always enjoyed reading about Goldilocks and the three bears. It is just a fun book for anyone to read. I really liked this book because the words in it are a little harder than other words in children's books. The pictures in this book are very silly and fun.
This is a great book to read to young students to increase their vocabulary. Children of very age will enjoy reading it and work on developong their vocabulary without knowing it. This book can also be used to talk to children about touching things that don't belong to them. Some of the words in this book are a little difficult so it will need to read to emergent readers (or with help) and some of the words will need to be defined but older students will be able to read it on their own. This book can be used to increase student motivation for reading because it is just a fun book.
I have always liked original stories like this as well. While I have always liked the spin-off versions of classics I think that children need the originals first. I think that even if I had to read this to my students it would be a book they would like and I could think of a million activities to go with it. I do like how you brought up that the book could also be used to talk to children about touching things that don't belong to them. This as we know is a hot topic with the younger grades and I think that using a text like this one could be very useful.
ReplyDeleteIn older grades with classics such as Shakespeare or Jane Austen sometimes teachers have students read modern updates/variations or books with similar themes before the original classic in order to build background or to help students see the relevance of the classic in today's world. It is interesting to think about the benefits of either before or after.
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