ELA Christmas Assessment - Paired Texts

The Gingerbread Man The Gingerbread ManA little old man and a little old woman stayed in a cottage.One day, the woman made a gingerbread man for dinner. She decorated the gingerbread man with eyes made of MMs and buttons made of cherries. But when she took the gingerbread man out from the oven, he jumped out and ran away.The gingerbread man yelled, “Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!”The old woman and her husband ran after him but the gingerbread man was too fast for them. The pig, the cow, and the horse also chased the gingerbread man, but they could not catch him.The gingerbread man yelled again, “Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!”Now, the gingerbread man came to a river and didn’t know how to cross it. A sly fox came up to him and offered to help him to cross the river. He asked him to sit on his tail but the gingerbread man began to get wet. Then the fox told him to sit on his back, but still the gingerbread man got wet. Finally the gingerbread man jumped up onto his nose.No sooner did the gingerbread man sit on the fox’s nose when the sly fox tossed him up in the air and gobbled him down. What word best describes the fox in the story The Gingerbread Man? clever silly helpful angry Why did the gingerbread man run away? He likes to run. He needed to cool down from the oven. He did not want to get eaten. He was late for school. The Runaway Pancake The Runaway PancakeTwo women were baking a pancake, and when it was almost done they began to fight, because each one wanted the whole thing for themselves.The one woman said, "I get the pancake!"The other one replied, "No, I want all of it!"Before they knew what was happening, the pancake suddenly grew feet, jumped out of the pan, and ran away.He came to a fox, who said to him, "Pancake, pancake, where are you going?"The pancake answered, "I ran away from two old women, and I shall run away from you as well!"Then he met a rabbit. It too shouted, "Pancake, pancake, where are you going?"The pancake answered, "I ran away from two old women, a fox, and I shall run away from you as well.Then he came to a large pig. It too shouted to him, "Pancake, pancake, where are you going?""Oh," he said, "I ran away from two old women, a fox, a rabbit, and I shall run away from you as well."The pig said, "Pancake, I can’t hear very well. You'll have to come closer and say it into my ear!"So the pancake went up close, and the pig snatched him and ate him up. The pig tricked the pancake by Telling him a joke. Telling him he was hungry. Telling him he couldn't hear. Telling him he was delicious. How are the two stories similar? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. How did the pancake run away? He grew feet. He grew wings. A dog carried him away. The two women threw him out the window. How are the two stories different? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.