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One Dish, Two Readers: Writing About Nani's Curry

Compare a recipe card and a family-tradition paragraph about the same curry to see how task, purpose and audience shape writing.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: ELA
Question types: Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students explain how a writer's purpose and audience shape the details she includes.
Students tell apart features of how-to writing and personal writing about the same topic.
Students write about one topic in two ways for two different readers.

How to use

Read both texts aloud and ask who each one is for. After students answer the questions, have them share their two short pieces with a partner and guess the reader of each.

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Common Core standard covered

W.5.4

Produce clear, coherent writing whose development and organization suit the task, purpose, and audience.

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One Dish, Two Readers: Writing About Nani's Curry

Compare two pieces about the same food, written for different readers.

Read the two texts

Nadia wrote about the same food twice. Text A is a recipe card for her cousin Arjun, who is just learning to cook. Text B is for her class display about family food traditions.

Text A: Nani's Potato and Pea Curry

Hi Arjun! This is the curry Nani makes every winter. It is a good first recipe because each step is simple. Ask Uncle Ravi to help you with the knife and the stove.

You will need: 2 tablespoons of oil, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 3 potatoes, 2 tomatoes, 1 cup of frozen peas, 1 teaspoon of cumin, 1 teaspoon of turmeric, a pinch of salt, and 2 cups of water.

Steps:
1. With an adult, chop the onion, garlic, potatoes and tomatoes into small pieces.
2. Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat.
3. Add the onion and stir until it is soft.
4. Stir in the garlic, cumin and turmeric for one minute.
5. Add the tomatoes, potatoes, water and salt.
6. Cover the pot and let it bubble gently until a fork slides easily into a potato.
7. Add the peas and cook for five more minutes.

Serve the curry with rice or warm flatbread. Good luck, cook!

Text B: The First Cold Night

1In my family, the first cold night of the year has a special smell. As soon as the weather turns chilly, my grandmother, Nani, pulls out her biggest pot and makes potato and pea curry. The kitchen windows fog up, and our whole apartment smells of cumin and warm tomatoes.

2Nani learned this recipe from her own mother when she was about my age. She never measures anything. Instead, she tosses in spices by the pinch and tastes as she goes. When I asked her how she knows it is right, she laughed and said, "Your nose will tell you."

3To me, this curry means more than dinner. It means that everyone crowds around our small table, passing the rice and telling stories about the day. By the end of the meal, the big pot is usually empty. Someday I hope to make it for my own family on the first cold night.

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