The Great Soup Fight
Carrot: (frowns) Move over, Potato! You are taking up all the dirt.
Potato: (grunts) You move over, Carrot! I need room to grow round and big.
Carrot: Hmph! You should give me room. I am the star of the vegetable patch.
Potato: (laughs loudly) You? A star? No way! I am the best vegetable here.
Carrot: That is silly. I make the best soup! Carrot soup is bright and sweet. It has a lovely orange glow.
Potato: Bah! Potato soup is much better. It is warm and thick. It fills up every belly!
Carrot: But potato soup is gray and dull. My soup looks like sunshine!
Potato: Soup is for eating, not for looking at! Potatoes are soft and cozy.
Carrot: (taps foot) A good soup needs sweet carrot coins. We taste like spring!
Potato: Without potatoes, soup is just warm water. I do all the heavy work!
Carrot: You just sit in the mud. Look at your lumpy brown coat!
Potato: (crosses arms) Lumps are strong. Look at your pointy nose!
Carrot: My shape is neat and tidy. The garden cook loves carrots best.
Potato: The cook loves potatoes best! She made soup last night.
Carrot: Wait. Did you see the soup pot?
Potato: (scratches head) Yes, I saw it from the dirt.
Carrot: What was inside?
- patch:
- A small piece of ground used for growing plants.
- glow:
- A soft, steady light or warm brightness.
- dull:
- Not shiny, bright, or interesting.
- lumpy:
- Full of bumps or uneven parts.
- delicious:
- Having a very pleasant taste or smell.
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- 1Where are Carrot and Potato growing at the start of the play?
- 2Why does Carrot ask Potato to move over?
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About this reader's theater passage for Lower Elementary
“The Great Soup Fight” is a reader's theater reading passage about Cooperation, written for Lower Elementary. It takes about 2 minutes to read (298 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.