Audience: PrimaryGenre: Picture Book/FantasyPre-reading Strategy: List-Group-LabelThe List-Group-Label strategy works for this story because it has a very strict theme of cooking. Therefore if the students in the class don't know a lot about cooking, this activity will help familiarize the students with the material. This strategy also works well because it breaks down the theme into small parts and then forces the students to see commonalities and differences between all the items they have pulled out. It also enforces teamwork between the students because they have to work together to form the categories. Pre-reading Strategy Script:"Hello class, today we are going to read a Golden Sower Nominee book, called "Duck Soup," by Jackie Urbanovic. However before we begin, we are going to do a small group activity. First, I want your small group to make a list of all the things that go along with cooking. For example what kind of tools do you need to cook a meal? Bowls maybe? A stove? What about all of the different kinds of food you can cook? Perhaps, vegetables or meat? List specifically what kinds of vegetables and meat you can cook, like broccoli and chicken. Creating this list will give your group a variety of items to further cluster into smaller categories. So now instead of the entire list being about cooking, there will be smaller lists that are more closely related. Make sure your group is able to explain why you put certain words into a specific category, and be able to prove to the class how all of the words are related. Finally your group must label each category created, so for example you might label one category Cooking Utensils, and under it will be a list grouping together all the words you came up with earlier relating to Cooking Utensils. Ok kids, gather into your assigned groups, and get ready to brainstorm cooking. Afterwards we can read our book and figure out what Duck Soup is all about!" Duck in this story cooks soups a lot, but he decides that he wants to create his own soup recipe that will be great. He has to leave after he has started cooking to get another recipe when his friends come into the house looking for him. They think he has fallen into the soup and to save him dump the soup out. Duck is devastated that he won't be able to finish creating his soup. His friends remind him he can do it another time and that they are just glad he is safe. He agrees with them.
What do You think about Duck Soup (2008)?
This is a hilarious book! The pictures are funny the story is funny ...and it makes me a bit hungry!
—NikkiH96
This book has been great illustrations. A very fun story, not much of a lesson in this book.
—Ink28498
Cute story- good for sequencing, beginning-middle-end, inference, even cause & effect.
—julzcanada
