Each pair takes two pages: the two tellings side by side, then questions that compare them. Page 7 is a chart for comparing any two versions of a tale, such as two picture books of the same story.
Read Version 1 aloud on one day and Version 2 the next. Then read them side by side and list what is the same and what changes before students answer.
Find two picture books of one fairy tale at the library and ask your child what each author changed.
Three tales told two ways, side by side: The Gingerbread Man and Russia's Runaway Bun, The Tortoise and the Hare and Germany's Hare and the Hedgehog, and two tellings of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Students compare the versions: what stays the same, what changes, and why.
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