A Pizza the Size of the Sun

Author: Jack Prelutsky

Illustrator: James Stevenson

Genre: Poetry

Prelutsky, Jack, and James Stevenson. A Pizza the Size of the Sun: Poems. New York: Greenwillow,            
       2013. Print.

Annotation
Making a pizza the size of the sun! Adding all of the toppings you could think of.

ELA Content Standards

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity- Grade 2
10.) By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades  2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

How it Connects: Students will be able to comprehend words in the poem and what it is about. They will also be able to view how poetry is set up with the different stanzas.

Craft and Structure- Grade 1
2.) Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

How it Connects: This poem is about food, so it appeals to many of the readers senses. The story also has many complex words that would help students work on their comprehension

Tier 3 Vocabulary

pimentos, delectable, tricycles

Classroom Usage
Centers: The teacher can choose a day to make pizzas in the class. The teacher can split the students up into groups so that everyone has job to help make the pizza. He/she could also read the story while the students eat the pizza.

Differentiation
This book shows ELL what different genres look like, and how to identify poems- learn about repetition and stanzas.