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Mr. Grim and the Goose 3.1.4 That Laid Golden Eggs REALISM AND FANTASY MONITOR AND FIX UP SUMMARY This is a fantasy that offers a real R EAD TH E BOO K message about money. The book retells the SET PURPOSE Have students set a purpose famous fable about a goose that lays golden for reading Mr. Grim and The Goose That Laid eggs with a modern and practical spin about Golden Eggs. Students’ interest in earning the importance of investing. It supports the and saving money, as well as their interest in lesson concept of how money can be earned, fables, should guide this purpose. Suggest saved, and invested. that students think about how we learn about LESSON VOCABULARY ourselves by reading stories about animals. deposit gleamed STRATEGY SUPPORT: MONITOR AND FIX UP glittering invest Discuss with students that it is important to mortgage stockbroker monitor, or keep an eye on, their understanding of what they are reading. Remind them INTRO D UCE TH E BOO K that there are different ways to fix up a Discuss with comprehension problem. Suggest that INTRODUCE THE TITLE AND AUTHOR students the title and the author of Mr. Grim students write notes about what is happening and The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs. Direct in the story. They can track the story and can students to look at the cover illustration to check their notes if the story stops making see if they can gain clues to what the story sense. Also tell students that if they are might be about. Ask students to identify what asked a question about the story, they can elements in the illustration look realistic and reread to review information they may have which appear to be fantasy. forgotten. BUILD BACKGROUND Ask students if they have COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS ever received large sums of money and, if PAGE 4 What is the first detail in the story that so, whether they spent it, saved it, or had gives you a clue that this story is a fantasy their parents invest it for them. Discuss with and not a realistic story? (The goose knocks students the different ways they can handle, on the door.) save, or spend money. What does the goose think would be a PAGE 13 PREVIEW/USE ILLUSTRATIONS As students wise thing for Mr. Grim to do? (She wants him preview the book, the amusing illustrations to stop wasting his money trying to get more of the goose and the grumpy Mr. Grim will eggs and to invest the money he already has.) probably attract their interest. Suggest that Does Mr. Grim’s character change at they notice how Mr. Grim’s expression hardly PAGE 19 changes in the illustrations, but the goose’s the end of the story? (No, he is the same expression does. Explain that this may give as he has always been. He did not learn any them clues as to whose character changes in lesson and he still wants more than what the story and whose character does not. Ask he has.) students to predict, based on the illustrations, which character ends up getting what he or she wants. 24 Mr. Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs
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R EVISIT TH E BOO K Skill Work READER RESPONSE 1. Possible responses: It’s a fantasy because TEACH/REVIEW VOCABULARY of the talking goose, the golden eggs, the Reinforce the meanings of the vocabulary talking dog, and the goose’s buying land. words by having students free-associate 2. food, spray of water, scary costume, house, other words about money, saving, or and dog spending that they may know. 3. Possible response: a way to pay for a house over time; My parents have a mortgage for Suggest that students take a word, our house. such as deposit, and generate more words 4. Possible responses: Yes; Appreciate what that relate to this activity. They can record you have; don’t be greedy; invest your their words in a web. money wisely and patiently; save your money, and it will grow. TARGET SKILL AND STRATEGY As students read the REALISM AND FANTASY Remind students EXTEND UNDERSTANDING that a realistic story deals with things that story, remind them that stories that teach a can happen, and a fantasy deals with things lesson and feature talking animals are called that could not happen. As students read the fables. Discuss with students what the lesson book, ask them to write down story details of this fable might be and how they can apply that indicate that this is a fantasy. Students that lesson to their own lives. may also jot down details that seem realistic. RESPONSE OPTIONS MONITOR AND FIX UP Remind students WRITING Suggest that students consider why that monitoring their reading means keeping Mr. Grim behaves as he does in the story. track of what parts of the story they don’t Ask them to imagine that they are Mr. Grim understand. Fix up refers to how they can and suggest they write a letter to the goose, improve their understanding by doing things asking for a second chance. like taking notes, reading on, and rereading. SOCIAL STUDIES Tell students that if they monitor and fix up CONNECTION as they read, it will be easier to keep track Students can learn more of the realistic or fantastic details. about money by starting ADDITIONAL SKILL INSTRUCTION a class bank. Suggest that each student put a dime into the class bank CHARACTER Remind students that characters every week. Invite students to keep track are the people or animals in a story who do of the money in a class bankbook. After a the action. Every character has traits, which number of weeks, count the money. Students are the things we know about the character should then decide whether to save more that can help us predict how the character money, to spend some of the money, or to will act in the story. Have students create spend all of the money. a character chart for both Mr. Grim and the goose. As they read, ask students to fill in the chart with the traits of both characters. Mr. Grim and the Goose That Laid Golden Eggs 25
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Name Mr. Grim and the Goose Realism and Fantasy • A realistic story tells about something that could happen. • A fantasy is a story about something that could not happen. 1. What are some of the realistic things in this story? 2. What is realistic about using gold to buy things in the story? What is fantasy? 3. What is a lesson or moral that you learned from this story? 4. What things about the goose are realistic? What things are not realistic? Directions Write two statements about money that are realistic and two statements that are fantasy. 5. 6. © Pearson Education 3 7. 8. 26
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Name Mr. Grim and the Goose Vocabulary Directions Write the correct vocabulary words in the blanks below. Check the Words You Know deposit gleamed glittering invest mortgage stockbroker Sally really wanted to buy her own planet, but she knew it would cost a lot. She decided to do some chores to earn money. First she polished her mother’s beautiful silver tray until it (1) . Then she washed the dishes. When she had put away the last clean, (2) glass, her mother paid Sally five dollars. Sally thought about using the money to make a (3) in the bank. Instead, she decided to (4) the money in the stock market, so she called a (5) . Sally thinks that in a few years she will be able to take out a (6) on a planet or pay for it over time. Directions Select three vocabulary words and use each in a sentence. © Pearson Education X 27
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