Classroom Resource

A Tale of Two Soup Cans Digital Game | Martha Speaks

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

K, 1, 2

Overview

In this Martha Speaks interactive story, students learn how the choices we make about our trash have different consequences for our environment. A discarded soup can can end up in a landfill, whereas a reused or recycled can could become something new! When used as a part of Martha’s True Stories Buddies Program, buddy pairs engage with the interactive story, then create an Advice Column that offers ways to reuse, repurpose, or compost old things. To familiarize yourself with the program, begin by reading the Martha's True Stories Buddies Program: Overview. At the end of the story, students can answer questions that assess students' comprehension and vocabulary acquisition

 

This resource includes an lesson, Martha’s True Stories: A Tale of Two Soup Cans. The resource also reads aloud to students and can be helpful for evaluating listening skills. Be sure to have the A Tale of Two Soup Cans Checklist for the partners to use. You can also review the PET part of the checklist in the PET Strategy Chart.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): KG

ELA21.K.17

With guidance and support, orally utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.K.17

Vocabulary

  • Orally utilize
  • Academic vocabulary
  • Content-specific vocabulary
  • Grade-level vocabulary
  • Prior knowledge
  • Guidance
  • Support

Knowledge

Students know:
  • New academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
With guidance and support,
  • Orally utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary.
  • Relate new vocabulary words to prior knowledge.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Their existing knowledge can help them determine the meaning of new vocabulary words.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.11

Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, make connections to previously learned words, and relate new words to background knowledge.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.11

Vocabulary

  • Utilize
  • Academic vocabulary
  • Content-specific vocabulary
  • Grade-level vocabulary
  • Connections
  • Relate
  • Background knowledge

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary words.
  • Content-specific vocabulary refers to words used in different subjects learned in school such as reading, math, social studies, science.
  • New vocabulary words can be learned by relating them to previously learned words and background knowledge.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Utilize grade-appropriate vocabulary.
  • Make connections to previous learned vocabulary words.
  • Relate new vocabulary words to background knowledge.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Their current vocabulary and background knowledge can help them determine the meaning of new vocabulary words.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.15

Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, making connections to previously learned words and relating new words to background knowledge.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.15

Vocabulary

  • Utilize
  • Academic vocabulary
  • Content-specific vocabulary
  • Grade-level vocabulary
  • Connections
  • Relating
  • Background knowledge

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary words.
  • Content-specific vocabulary refers to words used in different subjects learned in school such as reading, math, social studies, science.
  • New vocabulary words can be learned by relating them to previously learned words and background knowledge.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use new academic, content-specific vocabulary by making connections to previously learned words.
  • Use new academic, content-specific vocabulary by relating new words to background knowledge.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Academic, content-specific vocabulary words are used in different school subjects, like reading, math, social studies, and science.
  • They can learn new vocabulary words by making connections to previously learned words or their background knowledge.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.19

Identify new vocabulary and the use of word meanings in text to establish real-life connections.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.19

Vocabulary

  • Vocabulary
  • Establish
  • Real-life connections

Knowledge

Students know:
  • New vocabulary they encounter in text can be used in their real life.
  • Real life means situations that they have experienced or will experience.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify vocabulary words learned through reading text and connect them to something they have personally experienced.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Making real-life connections to new vocabulary words, helps them move the new words to their long-term memory, becoming part of their "ready to use" vocabulary.
Link to Resource
https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/msts14.ela.twosoup/a-tale-of-two-sou…

CR Resource Type

Interactive/Game

Resource Provider

PBS
Accessibility
License

License Type

CUSTOM

Custom License Type (URL)

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/help/terms-of-use/#permitted

Comments or Notes

This resource includes supporting materials for teachers. 

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