There are several lesson plans or a whole unit to develop with this story. I suggest obtaining enough copies to put in students’ book bins for independent reading practice, even if they are reading it from memory and illustrations.
Repetitive readings with this emergent reader will allow the teacher to focus on different elements of the story each time it is read. The story is great to teach children on so many levels. In the end, the house is willed to a great ancestor who has the house transferred back to the country of its beginnings. This ageless story is about a house that is built on the beautiful countryside that slowly, over the passage of time, becomes centered and forgotten in a big city. Written in 1942, it is a true classic when still used in classrooms nearly seventy years later! Like most children’s classics, the story begins with the words, “Once upon a time”.
Winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal, The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton is a timeless literature piece for students K-3rd grades.
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