Short Form (All Genres)

Your Name: Cristina Magallon

Title: Goldilocks and the three bears Author: James Marshall
Illustrator: James Marshall Publisher/Year: 1988
Genre: Folklore book

Summarize the content of the book –

A. For Fiction Form Genres—Explain the characters, the setting, theme and plot of the
book.
Characters: Goldilocks is seem as a sweet little girl but she is described as a naughty girl that does
whatever she wants for example entering through the forest where she was told not to go or entering
a house without knocking and eating and touching things that weren’t hers. Papa Bear, momma bear
and little bear are the victims of goldilocks break in.
Setting: A t the begging of the story it was at Goldilocks house but most of the story takes place at the
bears house in the forest.
Theme: Your actions can hurt others.
Plot: Goldilocks must go to the next village to buy muffins but her mom told her not to use the
shortcut through the forest but she doesn’t listen and finds a little house. The bears went for a ride in
their bike while their porridge cooled down. Goldilocks arrives at the house and enters without
knocking and tries the bears porridge and finishes little bear food. Then she goes to explore the house
and sits on their chairs, then breaking little bear chair. After that, she goes up stairs and tries the bed
but she likes little bear bed so she decides to take a nap. The family comes back home and finds that
their food was eaten, their chairs and bed were used and find that Goldilocks is still sleeping in little
bears bed. They were really upset and she woke up and ran away and the never saw her again.
Explain how the book appeals to children, their interests, developmental levels, fun
illustrations etc. Give specific examples from the book:
Children can relate to the story and with the bears because they all at some moment know
the feeling of having somebody touch their things without their permission and they can
understand that feeling.
Developmental level: Concrete Operational Age: 7 to 11 years
Schemes broaden: can classify objects by several features.
Goldilocks can classify the chairs for example one was too hard, other too soft and the other
was comfortable, the porridge one was hot, other cold and the last one just right.
This book has a lot of fun illustrations for example when the bears get home after their bike
ride they come to their house to find a big mess in the kitchen caused by goldilocks it the
illustrations you can see their face of disgust because of the mess but also mad and upset
because somebody entered their house.
Rate the book 1 2 3

Explain your rating.

This is a really good book with a great theme for children, they need to know that whatever
they do will affect other so they must always be nice. And understand that manners are an
important quality to have.
Short Form (All Genres)
Your Name: Cristina Magallon
Title: The Three Little Pigs Author: James Marshall
Illustrator: James Marshall Publisher/Year: 1989
Genre: Folklore book
Summarize the content of the book –
A. For Fiction Form Genres—Explain the characters, the setting, theme and plot of the
book.
Characters: The three little pigs are the characters the first two pigs are not that smart because they
build their houses out of straw and sticks even when people told them that is was not a good idea to
do that they did it and because of that they go eaten by the wolf. The third little pig was much more
smarter because he build his house out of bricks and when the wolf came to blow his house down he
could because it was strong.
Setting: At the begging it was at the mom’s house, then they when out to the world and they all went
different directions building themselves some houses. Other places include Farmer Jones’s Field,
Merry Meadow and the Hog Hill Fair.
Theme: Whatever you do to people it will always return to yourself.
Plot: The mom of the pigs made them go out to the world on their own.
They all went separate directions, the first pig made a house out of straw, the wolf came and blew his
house down and ate the pig. Second pig build his house out of sticks and the wolf came and blew his
house down and ate him too. The third pig made his house out of bricks, the wolf came and tried to
blow it out but he couldn’t so the wolf had to think of another idea to be able to eat him so he invited
him to places to eat but the pig would always out smart him by going an hour earlier. At the end the
wolf got tired of the games the pig was playing that he decided to climb to the house and go eat the
pig by going down the chimney but the pig once again outsmarted him and when the wolf came down
there was a pot full of boiling water waiting for him and the pig eat wolf for dinner.
Explain how the book appeals to children, their interests, developmental levels, fun
illustrations etc. Give specific examples from the book:
Every children likes books that have fun catching phrase so they will love those parts and will enjoy
repeating for example: “No, no, no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin.” Or “I’ll huff and I’ll puff
and I’ll blow your house in.
Developmental levels: Autonomy verses shame-doubt Age: Toddlerhood
Children can choose to follow adult’s directions or to defy them with “no”.
For example, the pigs defy the wolf by saying no when he said to let him in.
In the illustrations when the first and second pig were talking to the people who they wanted to buy
the straw and sticks from the texts says I wouldn’t do that or that’s not a good idea which the pigs
reply to mind your business or what would you know and the illustrations show them mad because of
what they reply to them trying to help them.
Rate the book 1 2 3

Explain your rating.

I like this book because it’s a twist to other stories that usually the bad guy wins and this time the
pig could outsmart the wolf and got revenge for what he did to his brothers. They also need to
learn to be smart with people how might want to hurt them.
Fiction Evaluation Form
(Picture Books, Folklore, Modern Fantasy, Contemporary Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Books)

Your Name: Cristina Magallon

Book Title: The Starlight Princess and other Princess stories-The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Author: Annie Dalton Illustrator: Belinda Downes
Genre: Folklore Publisher/Year: 1999
EVALUATE THE BOOK USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS
STYLE and Language: Explain the language used – word choices, sentence length, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme.
Explain unexpected insights or interesting information the reader learns from the story. Give examples form
the book.
This is a long story for young children that has long and short sentences with simple words. It also
includes dialogue with other characters and has a few words that rhyme I believe no rhythm.
Example for language used, word choices and sentence length: Short- Once upon a time a king had
twelve daughters. Long- The king kissed he princesses on their smooth, pretty foreheads and locked
their bedroom door to keep them safe while they slept.
Examples of dialogue between an old woman and the soldier: “I suppose I could always find out
where the princesses go to dance,” “then in time I might become king.” “is it a king you want to be?”
“That’s easy enough. Just take care not to drink the wine one of the princesses brings you, and after
she leaves pretend to be fast asleep.”
Example of words that rhyme: “You silly goose,” “You little noodle.”
CHARACTER – Who is the main character? Explain the character’s personality traits. How can the reader
relate to the character, become involved in the story?
Who are the supporting characters? Give examples of both.
Main characters: the twelve princesses were all smart, mischievous and knew how to keep a secret
but also how to work together. They would all sneak out at night to go dancing and when they were
asked how their shoes were always worn out they would not say anything.
A king had twelve daughters, these girls were up to mischief all day long.
Children can relate to the princess because they were always getting in trouble just like children do
Supporting characters: The king is caring, protective and controlling he tries to control his daughters
lives by locking them but also seems caring because he is worried about them.
The soldier was smart enough to follow advice that was given to him and with that he was able to
discover where the princesses went at night.
1. PLOT: (Explains the major events in the story.) Summarize the plot
Every night twelve princess would sneak out at night to go dancing and the king was worried because
he didn’t know where his daughters went so he issued a proclamation that he wanted the mystery
solve and whoever was ever to solve it would be able to marry one of his daughters. Many princes
went to try their luck solving the mystery but none of them were able because they would fall asleep
every night and ended in the dungeon. One day a soldier was passing through the kingdom and an old
woman asked him where he was going, he said he had no idea that he might try his luck solving the
case the woman gave him an invisible cloak and told him to not drink anything the princesses give
him. So, he did what the old woman told him he didn’t drink anything and pretended to be asleep so
the princesses got ready and headed into a trap door he followed them behind wearing the cloak so
he wouldn’t been seen. They went thru a forest and a lake until they got into a castle were the ball
was taking place. He kept following them the two second nights that followed he gather things so
when he told his story he would be believed. When the king asked if he had solved the mystery he
was able to tell the whole true and the princesses had to confess the truth. The next day he married
the eldest daughter and then a few years later he became king.
 2. SETTING – Explain the place and time of the book.
THEME- What is the story’s theme or lesson?
Setting: the story begging in the princess’s castle, going through a forest, and across a lake to the ball in
the course of various days each princes/soldier had 3 days and night to find where they were going.
Theme: Lying isn’t good and the truth always comes out sooner or later.
ILLUSTRATION –Analyze the illustrations in the book (see Chapter 4) with the categories below: Choose a 2-
page spread in the book to answer the following:
What Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)?
Naïve
Media (paints, oils watercolors, pencil, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk) :
This was designed in a cloth decorated with a needle and thread or yarn.
Visual elements:
Line: straight for tree
Shapes: Circle for the moon and the light from the lanterns, Triangles shape for trees and dresses.
Color: blue, green, brown, yellow, pink, purple and orange.
Texture: glow of light, hair movement.
Explain how illustration and text are combined to tell the story. What do illustrations show that text does not
explain?
The illustrations go exactly with the text, something that the illustrations show different types of trees in
which the leaves are made of silver, gold and diamonds the text just says about the trees.
Describe the Page design: the borders, use of white/dark space, text placement & size, font, placement of illustrations:
No borders on the page, no use of white or black, the page seems like a piece of cloth the text is on the top
of the page, medium size letters and the illustrations are placed at the bottom.
3. CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES – CHOOSE 2 of theories below and evaluate the book according to the
developmental theories. (How the book fits the developmental stage and age?)
PIAGET-COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: sensorimotor and the age: birth to 2
Explain the cognitive development from the stage: develop stranger anxiety
Give examples from the book show how the book fits the cognitive stage:
The youngest sister wasn’t so sure about the solder who was staying at their castle and she had the idea
that he was spying on them and that someone was following them.
ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: industry versus inferiority and the age: school
Explain the social development for this stage: work in multi-ability groups with their peers working
together.
Give examples from the book that support the social development of this stage:
The sisters all worked together every night to get the princes to fall asleep so they could escape every
night to go to the ball to dance.
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __________________________________
Explain the emotional development at this age:
Give examples from the book to illustrate the emotional development of this age:
4. Overall Rating of the book (3 highest - 1 lowest) 1 2 3
Comments: (Support your overall rating)
I liked this story because it starts as a mystery that nobody can solve especially because the princesses
don’t say anything and any of the princes that try can’t solve anything. It teaches that we should always
listen to our elders just like the soldier did, he listened to the old women and because of that he was able
to discover their secret and eventually became king because of it.
 BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN

Your Name: Cristina Magallon Genre of the Book: Folklore

Book Title: The Starlight Princess and other Princess Stories- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Author: Annie Dalton
Publisher: DK Publishing Inc Date: 1999

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards: 1st grade

(1)4.4 draw; using varied media, techniques, and processes

2. Objectives:
SWBAT– Color and build their own crown.

3. Materials/Equipment: Book- The Starlight Princess and other Princess Stories- The Twelve
Dancing Princesses; crown design (handout), crayons, markers, glitter, hole puncher, scissors
and string or yarn.

4. Teaching:
Interest hook: Does anyone like to dance?
Do you think you could go dancing every night?

Today we are going to read a story about not just one but twelve princesses that love to dance and
The book is called- The twelve dancing princesses.
Ok, let’s begin the story. Listen carefully

A. Reading the book

• Read the book and pause before turning the pages and ask if they have an idea of
where the princesses are going.
• Ask if they think it’s a good idea for the king to lock the princesses in their room and
why do they think he does it
• Ask if they think the soldier should listen to the old woman
• Ask if they think the soldier is going to be able to solve the mystery
• Who they think the soldier is going to choose to marry.
At the end of the story, ask the children: what part of the story they liked and why. Ask to
share answers with class.

B. Extension activity:
Today we are going to do a fun activity:
• For this activity we get to make decorate and make our own crown to become
princess and prince.
• First, I’m going to give you a crown design and you get to decorate it as you like.

• Once you finish, get some scissors and cut around the crown. Be careful not to cut
 your crown.
• When you have your crown cut out raise your hand and I will call on you to come up
to help you finish building your crown.
• With the hole puncher make holes in the sides of the crown.
• With the yarn measure their head and tie the yarn in both of the holes like a circle to
they can put it on their head.

5. Closure:
• Have them all wear their crowns so everybody can see it.
• Have a dance party like the princesses and princes.