Comparing and Contrasting Cinderella Stories

Explicit instruction/Teacher modeling

• Display The Rough-Face Girl Vocabulary Notebook document on an overhead or projector.
• Explain to the students that they will fill out this notebook sheet so that they can understand the vocabulary in the book they will be listening to shortly.
• Read and model the Word, Definition, My Picture, and My Sentence columns of the notebook.
• Model the next word using the tier 2 vocabulary document.
• Explain to the students that they will be filling out the remainder of the notebook and display the tier 2 vocabulary document for the class to use. Have the students complete the "My Picture" and "My Sentence" columns on their own.
• Walk the room and monitor student work and help as needed.

Guided practice/Interactive modeling

• Read The Rough-Face Girl aloud.
• Pause and discuss vocabulary words from the Vocabulary Notebook while reading.
• Arrange the students into pairs.
• Have the students think-pair-share to discuss how The Rough-Face Girl and the traditional Cinderella story are alike and different.
• Walk the room and monitor conversations.

Independent working time

• Hand out a copy of the Character Comparison document to each student.
• In pairs, have the students complete the document by writing at least 2 items in each section of the Venn Diagram.

• Enrichment: Have advanced students write 3 or more items in each Venn Diagram section.
• Support: Pair struggling students with a peer mentor.

• Informal assessment is the graded Character Comparison documents.

• Have a representative from each pair of students present a written item from their Venn Diagram.
• Have each student present a different item until all of the items from the students' Venn Diagrams have been presented.