Saturday, April 15, 2017

All the Way to America By: Dan Yaccarino

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Book Title: All the Way to America
Author: Dan Yaccarino
Illustrator: Dan Yaccarino
Genre: Historical Fiction
Summary: The story of an Italian immigrant and his journey to make a living for himself and his family after ariving in American. This story goes through the generations and how a little shovel, a tomato sauce recipe, hard work, and family are the important things that were carried down.
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 1, Key Ideas and Details #3- Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
How it Connects:Students can see how the shovel was passed through the generations and how the life of the family was changed because of immigration.
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Craft and Structure #5- Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
How it Connects: The beginning of the story sets up the rest of the book by describing the journey of the family's first immigrant to American and how he needed to find work and continue to work hard and always remember his family and to pass his knowledge down through the generations to be successful himself and for his family to be successful. 
3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) boat 2) family 3) zucchini 
How Children Use Book: Individually and Small Group
Meets Needs: ELL students can use this to relate differences and similarities to the cultural vocab and theme of this book to their own lives (mirrors vs windows)

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