Giant Soup Book

Giant Soup tells the whimsical tale of a lonely giant who decides to make soup-but the ingredients are anything but ordinary! With its storybook language, paragraph structure, and engaging repetition (œThis soup is no good), this text captures a traditional fairytale tone. Readers will enjoy discovering the hidden text in the illustrations and imagining how the bizarre ingredients come together. The story supports genre exploration and procedural understanding, while offering students the chance to discuss imaginative problem-solving. A great companion for shared reading and dramatic retelling, this book blends narrative fun with structural learning.

Educational Benefits

• Encourages understanding of genre conventions in storytelling
• Builds sequencing and procedural awareness
• Expands vocabulary with adverbs and descriptive phrases
• Develops awareness of dialogue and narrative voice

Classroom Ideas

• Create your own class œgiant soup recipe using silly ingredients
• Highlight paragraphing and speaker changes in shared reading
• Identify repeated phrases and create your own patterned story
• Explore the use of adverbs by rewriting actions with new ones

Safety & Information

• Ages: 6+
• Standard format for guided reading
• No real food use-content is entirely fictional and imaginative
• Encouraged for classroom literacy sessions and group retelling