Bloom’s Taxonomy Stone Soup by Ann McGovern

Knowledge

  • Can you name the characters in the story?
  • Make a time line of the events of the story.
  • Name the ingredients in the soup
  • Can you tell my why the young man was hungry?
  • Where did the old lady get the bones for in the soup?
  • What happened after the soup was made?

Comprehension

  • Draw me a picture of the table fit for a king?
  • What was the main idea of the story?
  • Retell the story in your own word.
  • Looking at the illustrations, where did the ingredients come from.
  • Discuss how you think the young man got the old lady to help with the soup.
  • Who were the main characters in the story?
  • Who were the characters seen the illustrations but not mentioned in the text?

Application

  • Could this story have happened in your community?
  • What might have happened had the old lady said “Yes” to the young man?
  • What ingredients would you put in your soup?
  • If the women were to make soup again, how do think she would make it?
  • Rereading the text and looking at the illustrations, how do you think the old lady felt when the man came to her door?
  • What do you think is the theme of this story?

Analysis

  • Why do you think the old lady eventually helped the young man with the soup?
  • Do you think the soup could have been made without the stone?
  • What do you think the old lady learned by cooperating with the young man?
  • What do you think the young man learned from the old lady?
  • Based on the current health pyramid, do think they made a healthy soup?
  • How does this story compare with another folk tale you have read?
  • What was the motive behind the young man?
  • List some adjectives that describe the old lady and the young man.
  • Make a list of adjectives that describe how the old lady and the young man felt at the beginning, middle and end of the story. Explain.
  • How would you compare this story with Five Little Monkeys Jumping in a Bed?

Synthesis

  • What meal might you make for someone who came to your house after a long trip?
  • Add a new character to your story.
  • Can you write a new recipe for a tasty and healthy soup?
  • Can you create new repetitive phrases for the story line?
  • Rewrite this story using another time period and country?
  • Set the story to a music composition using a period piece.
  • Plan and make a dinner of Stone Soup kindergarteners.
  • Create a folk tale from an oral story from your early life.

Evaluation

  • Do you think that the young man was right to trick the old lady?
  • Will the young man trick another person?
  • Do you think people should help other people who have no food and are hungry? Explain.
  • If you were the old lady, would you have helped the young man?
  • Compare this folk tale with 5 other folk tales form 5 different countries?
  • How would you have handled the young man?
  • Explain in what year and in what country you think this storytook place