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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Growing Vegetable Soup

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Use Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

It's never too early to help readers use comprehension strategies. With its bright illustrations, use of labels, and highly engaging subject matter, Growing Vegetable Soup is the perfect informational text for Kindergarten readers. Students will enjoy learning how to visualize, retell, and make predictions about a family's garden and the soup they make with their harvest.
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Making Connections with Growing Vegetable Soup

Help readers to fully engage with this simple nonfiction text by making it easy to connect with the fun of growing a garden, waiting for the vegetables to grow, and finally enjoying the harvest at the end of the season.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.K.1,RL.K.5,RL.K.9,RL.K.10,RF.K.3,RF.K.4,SL.K.1b,SL.K.2,SL.K.3,SL.K.4,SL.K.5,W.K.8,L.K.6,L.K.1,L.K.4,L.K.5
TEKS Alignment
K.6D,K.12E,K.12D,K.12A,K.9E,K.8C,K.7C,K.7B,K.6F,K.6E,K.1A,K.6C,K.6B,K.6A,K.5I,K.5E,K.5A,K.1D,K.1C
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Making Predictions with Growing Vegetable Soup

Engage early readers by helping them to draw upon their own knowledge about planting gardens and how things grow to make predictions while reading.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.K.1,RL.K.4,RL.K.7,RL.K.10,RF.K.3,RF.K.4,SL.K.1b,SL.K.2,SL.K.3,SL.K.4,SL.K.5,W.K.8,L.K.6,L.K.1,L.K.4,L.K.5
TEKS Alignment
K.6E,K.12E,K.12D,K.9E,K.9C,K.9B,K.8C,K.7C,K.7B,K.6F,K.1A,K.6D,K.6C,K.6B,K.5I,K.5E,K.5C,K.5A,K.1D,K.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Growing Vegetable Soup

Growing Vegetable Soup offers a linear storyline that blends with elements of nonfiction and bright illustrations, making it an ideal book for readers to learn how to retell and summarize information.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
SL.K.2,L.K.5,L.K.4,L.K.1,L.K.6,W.K.8,SL.K.5,SL.K.4,SL.K.3,RL.K.1,SL.K.1b,RF.K.4,RF.K.3,RL.K.10,RL.K.7,RL.K.3,RL.K.2
TEKS Alignment
K.6E,K.12E,K.12D,K.9E,K.8C,K.7D,K.7C,K.7B,K.7A,K.6F,K.1A,K.6D,K.6C,K.6B,K.5I,K.5G,K.5A,K.1D,K.1C
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Understanding Text Structure with Growing Vegetable Soup

Full of clear descriptions, straight forward sequencing, and examples of cause and effect, Growing Vegetable Soup is a smart choice for teaching about text structures. Use this book and the paired lesson plan to show beginning readers how books are organized.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
SL.K.2,L.K.5,L.K.4,L.K.1,L.K.6,W.K.8,SL.K.5,SL.K.4,SL.K.3,RL.K.1,SL.K.1b,RF.K.4,RF.K.3,RL.K.10,RL.K.7,RL.K.6,RL.K.5,RL.K.3
TEKS Alignment
K.6E,K.12E,K.12D,K.9E,K.9D,K.9C,K.9B,K.7C,K.7B,K.7A,K.6F,K.1A,K.6D,K.6C,K.6B,K.5I,K.5G,K.5E,K.5D,K.5A,K.1D,K.1C
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Visualizing with Growing Vegetable Soup

Making mental images is a fun activity for beginning readers. Use Growing Vegetable Soup and the paired set of resources to show students how to use the information in a text to visualize.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
SL.K.4,SL.K.6,SL.K.1,L.K.5,L.K.4,L.K.1,L.K.6,W.K.8,SL.K.5,RL.K.1,SL.K.3,SL.K.2,RF.K.4,RF.K.3,RL.K.10,RL.K.7,RL.K.3
TEKS Alignment
K.6E,K.12E,K.12D,K.9E,K.9D,K.9C,K.8C,K.7D,K.7B,K.6F,K.1A,K.6D,K.6C,K.6B,K.5I,K.5E,K.5D,K.5A,K.1D,K.1C
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High-Frequency Words with Growing Vegetable Soup

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert as a springboard for instruction focused on high-frequency words.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how high-frequency words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

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Vocabulary Connections with Growing Vegetable Soup

This set of vocabulary development resources for Growing Vegetable Soup highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.K.6,L.K.5a
TEKS Alignment
K.6F,K.3A,K.3B,K.3C
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Comprehension Assessment with Growing Vegetable Soup

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Growing Vegetable Soup.
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Sequencing with Growing Vegetable Soup

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Making Connections with Growing Vegetable Soup (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Growing Vegetable Soup (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Growing Vegetable Soup (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Growing Vegetable Soup (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Growing Vegetable Soup (Spanish)

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Sequencing with Growing Vegetable Soup (Spanish)

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Title: Growing Vegetable Soup
Author: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Informational, Nonfiction
Themes: Plants
ISBN: 9780152325756
Publisher's Summary:
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert is a vibrant and inviting introduction to gardening, perfect for young children and classroom settings. The story begins with a simple declaration: "Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." From there, readers are guided through the gardening process, starting with gathering essential tools and selecting seeds such as green beans, peas, corn, zucchini, and carrots. The book follows the family as they plant, tend, and nurture their vegetable garden, showing each step with bold, collage-style illustrations that make the process easily accessible and engaging for early learners.

What sets this book apart is its focus on the full cycle of gardening, from planting and weeding to harvesting and preparing the vegetables for a shared meal. The narrative emphasizes teamwork, patience, and the rewards of nurturing living things, all while building excitement for the final step: making and enjoying vegetable soup together. The inclusion of a simple soup recipe adds an interactive element, encouraging classrooms to extend the story into a hands-on cooking activity. Growing Vegetable Soup is not only a celebration of healthy eating and family collaboration but also a gentle invitation for children to explore nature and understand where their food comes from. Its straightforward text, supportive illustrations, and practical content make it a valuable resource for teachers looking to inspire curiosity about plants, nutrition, and family traditions.
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