Address receptive and expressive language skills in preschool-1st grade students with this garden unit pertaining to the story, Growing Vegetable Soup, by Lois Ehlert. It is also perfect for spring, gardening, or cooking units and adaptable for all levels of learning. This unit targets the following language skills: vocabulary, categorizing/sorting, reasoning, scanning, associations, sequencing, comparing/contrasting, synthesizing information, language processing, wh-questions, yes/no question