- chart paper
- construction paper
- crayons
- markers
- pictures of different soups
- recipe
- soup
MA Standards:
Writing/W.PK.MA.2: Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Experiments with writing tools and materials.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Our Vegetable Soup
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Early Writing, Vocabulary
Display a soup cookbook with pictures of soups that have vegetables in them. Do an illustration walk with children to talk about the kinds of soups featured in the book.
- Ask, What kind of soup do you think this is? Do you think you’d like to taste it? Why?
- Point to a list of ingredients and say, Each soup has a recipe that tells what ingredients you need if you want to make that soup. Read the ingredients with children.
- Tell children they will make a group recipe book and each of them will make a page for the group book.
- Talk with each child about a list of ingredients they would want to put in their vegetable soup. Encourage them to list vegetables. Have the child help you complete the sentence frame <Child’s name> soup has <list of ingredients> on a sheet of construction paper. Think aloud as you complete the sentence frame with them, pointing out the beginning and end of each word and the spaces between the words.
- Have each child stand and recite their ingredient list.
Then have children illustrate the pages. Help children write his or her name on their pages. Create a cover page with the title “Our Vegetable Soups” and staple the pages together. Read the completed recipe book to children. Then put it in the Library Center for children to read.