Double Fudge

Blume, Judy. Double Fudge (2002). New York, New York: Dutton Children's Books

Double Fudge, is the final book in Judy Blume's Fudge series. In the book the Hatcher family takes a family trip to Washington D.C to show Fudge that Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in hopes that his love for money would stop. Fudge's love for many may not have stopped but along the way he found his twin. While the family is in D.C, they find some long lost cousins who have a young boy name Drexel Hatcher, which just happens to be Fudge's real name. 

Connecting to the Standards 
Grade 2 W (3): Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure

• This standards is met through having to write a summary at the end of each reading time but also at the never end when students sequence the events of the story  

 Grade 2 SL (2): Recount or describe key ideas or details form a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

• This standard is met through the class timeline that the students will make at the end of each reading. Students also meet this standard when they write a summary of the chapters read that day in their journals.

Learning Outcomes 
In small groups students will put events from the text in order for which they occurred with 70% accuracy.

Adapted to the Classroom
This book would be one that I read aloud to students after lunch/recess to just simply calm them down. Before reading this text, we would have already read the first three and students would be family with Judy Blume, but also Fudge and his story.

While reading this text I would have students at the end of each reading time, write down in their journals what happened during those chapters and what they think to be important. After the students have written down we would come back together as a class. It is at this point that we would make a timeline of the important events from that section. We would add these important events to a class timeline from previous chapters.

At the very end of reading the book, children would be given pieces of papers that would have the events typed out on them and would put them in order by which event happened. The students would use glue to put the events in order of how they happened in the text. For this activity that would work in groups to put the events in order.

Bloom's Taxonomy
What do you think Fudge thought when he first found out someone else has his name? (Analysis)
What is the main idea of _____ chapter(s)? (Comprehension)
Where is the setting of the story? (Knowledge)

Differentiation
For students who are ELL students, I would do my best to try and find a way to get the text into their language. Be that they listen to the text read aloud in their native language. I would also translate the events into their native language for them to put in order.
For students who are unable to use fine motor skills to paste the events on another piece of paper, I would provide them with an assistive technology to help them complete the activity.