Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Thuy Trinh

Book Title: The Three Little Pigs
Author: Barry Moser
Genre: Folklore
Illustrator: Barry Moser
Publisher/Year: Little, Brown Young Readers/ 2001
Age group this book is intended for: 5 - 6 years old

Evaluate the Book for the following elements

Style and Language: (5 points)

Share 3-word choices that will support the intended age group and explain why.
How will the sentence length hold the intended age groups interest?
Share 1 sentence that will define the book for this age group.

Word choices: antonyms, repetitive, and moral

 Antonym. The story describes the contrast between the three little pigs and the big bad
wolf, showing that good and evil coexist in life in the world. It is important that we
have to protect ourselves.
 Repetitive. The story completely repeats the words of the wolf and the three little pigs
when the wolf comes to the three little pigs' house. Helps children easily remember the
words used in the dialogue, and visualize the context of what happens to each little
pig.
 Moral. In the story, bad guy like the wolf will always find a way to achieve their
goals, but he died under the intelligence of the third pig. That shows that good always
wins over bad.

The sentence length in the story includes both short and long sentences. Short sentences are
often the characters' dialogue and are repeated to help children easily remember the events
that occur in the plot. Long sentences often describe the characters' actions that have
happened, are happening, and will happen, helping children have a coherent thinking about
the story's developments.

This is a interesting folk tale about the three little pigs that teaches children to think about
which building material is more durable: straw, sticks or bricks and is suitable for
kindergarten and first graders to start their adventures in the world of books and turn it into
an enjoyable experience.
Character: With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)
Who is the main character?
How can the reader relate to the character?
Who are the supporting characters?

The main character: the third little pig

Readers can relate to the characters in many different ways. Children can relate to the first
two pigs, they can always finish their work quickly, have a lot of time to play and the results
are not good. Others may be related to the third pig, they will spend their time working hard
and carefully to achieve excellent academic results.

The supporting characters: Two other little pigs, little pigs’ mother, wolf, and a man

Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)

“The Three Little Pigs” is a folk tale about three little pigs whose mother sent them into the
world to live an independent life. To pursue the same goal, each pig builds a house using
different materials. The first pig built a house of straw, the second pig decided to build a
house of wood and the third pig built a house of bricks. A Big Bad Wolf blew down the straw
and wood houses of the first two pigs, but could not destroy the third pig's house that is made
of bricks. The bad wolf still did not give up, he tried to lure the third pig out of the house, but
the little pig very smart escaped the bad wolf's trap and killed it. After that the third pig lived
happily all his day and was never trouble by a wolf again.

Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)

Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)

Setting:
Time: In the past, “once upon the time”
Place: In the forest, “three little pigs lived with their mother in a forest”, and somewhere in
the world, because the three little pigs went out into the big world to seek their fortune.

The main message:

The story highlights the importance of patience, effort and practical in life, as it will pay off
in the future. The first two pigs were lazy, refused to put in the effort, they constructed their
dwellings quickly in order to have more free time to play and these houses couldn't protect
them in the face of danger. But the third pig who worked hard to build the brick house helped
him not only escape the bad wolf but also kill it.
Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2 points)

Style is Cartoon art. The illustrations use of exaggerated features and bright colors.

Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk): (2
points)

Media choice is painterly. It uses paints, pen, and oils watercolors.

Give 3 examples of how the illustration will hold a child’s attention.

(3 Points)

The book cover illustration, three little pigs with three facial expressions
will bring children interesting curiosity that what the pigs are thinking and
what their situation will be like.

This illustration shows the hard work the third pig is doing, and children
may have seen similar images of house builders somewhere like this.

This illustration shows the third pig's willingness to protect himself.

Children may pay attention to the blazing fire under the pot because this
is realistic picture for preparing a meal. And the third pig also prepared
himself a dinner of wolf stew.

Page design-placement of the illustrations: Describe how the placement of the illustration
will support children’s interest. (3)

The placement of the illustration in this story will support children’s interest because it
clearly shows the different expressive states of the character's face. At the same time, it also
shows the way the characters do their work, including good things and bad things. The image
of a man appearing shows interactions between animals and humans in the world's past,
making children curious and imagine of stories that will take place later. The illustrations
with bright colors and exaggerated details that will be very interesting for children and they
can imagine what their facial expressions will be like when they are happy, sad, scared or
proud.

Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to

describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)

Erickson:
Name the stage: Initiative vs. Guilt and the age: 3-6 years old
The focus of this stage is play, as it allows children to explore interpersonal skills through
initiating activities. Children can begin to think for themselves and plan activities, complete
tasks and face challenges.
For example, in the story, the third little pig always planned to deal with the wolf's plots and
successfully defeated the wolf and will not be harmed by the wolf again.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: 3

Why? Because this is a good moral education story, it helps children realize that they must
work hard to succeed and will not be harmed.

Book Extension Activity (25 points):

Must be the same story as your evaluation.
Your Name: Thuy Trinh
Book Title: The Three Little Pigs
Book Author: Barry Moser
Age range for this activity: 5 - 6 years old
Date: November 5, 2023

1. Infant/Toddler/Pre-K/CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standard (5 points)

(List the actual standard that will support your activity)
 Fine Arts Philosophy. Nevada Academic Content Standards for Fine Arts are
predicated on a belief that artistic literacy provides students with an ability to
create, present, critique, and connect art to their academic studies, lives, and the
world around them.
 Understanding Mathematics. Mathematical understanding and procedural skill are
equally important, and both are assessable using mathematical tasks of sufficient
richness.

2. Objectives (What will children expect to learn?) (5 points)

 Student can identify specific shapes.
 Student can recognize four basic shapes: Rectangles, Squares, Circles and
Triangles.
 Student can recognize shapes in the environment.
 Student can create works of art using the shapes.
 Student can tear and paste a house with basic shapes.

3. Materials and Equipment needed: (5 points)

 The three little pigs video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=d3pwQIP9Hiw&t=50s
 Video: Let's Build A House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBhJ8O7p2j8
 Blank sheets of paper
 Glue, color papers

4.Teaching (What will you do?) (5 points)

 Ask students sit in chairs at their table.
 Give each student a blank sheet of paper.
 Give students an picture of how the house is look like with
shapes.
 Ask students tear off sheets of colored paper that students
want they will to be rectangles, squares, circles and triangles.
 Ask student to make a house for themselves with the shapes they tore out.
 Ask student glue the shapes that they tear on the blank sheet of paper that make a
house.

5. Closure: (2 points)
 Collect the paper
 Ask students to clear their table
 Watch video: The three little pigs
 Video: Let's Build A House.

6. List 3 additional books in this genre to extend the learning: (3 points)

 Hansel and Gretel by author and illustrator Will Moses.(2006)
 City Mouse, Country Mouse by author and illustrator Maggie Rudy.(2017)
 Beauty and the Beast by author Marianna Mayer and illustrated by Mercer Mayer.
(2000)