Teach students with picture books so they can learn complex standards. The Empty Pot provides a great model for how to write a response to text that is required on common core assessments.Book Summary: The Empty Pot tells a story about Ping, a young boy who grew the most beautiful flowers in China. When the Emperor decided that whoever could grow the biggest, most beautiful flower, would succeed him to the throne, Ping was sure he that he would become Emperor. However, when Ping was unable to gr