Book Title:Big Red Lollipop
Author: Rukhsana Khan
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Summary: When a young girl gets invited to a birthday party, her mother says she can only go if she takes her little sister along. Having your littler sister a party only you were invited to is a little embarrassing and when it's time to go home each of the girls receive a goodie bag with lollipops. Little sisters don't know how to make things last and eats her lollipop that day... and eats her older sisters lollipop the next morning that her sister had been saving.
ELA Content Standard
1: Grade 2, Key Ideas and Details #3- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
How it Connects:Students can discuss how the girl responds and reacts at various point in the story when she was excited to go to the party, embarrassed and upset, and when she got so mad at her little sister for eating the lollipop that she chased her around the house and threw the stick of the lollipop.
ELA Content Standard
2: Grade 2, Craft and Structure #6- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
How it Connects: The litter sister who wants to go the her older sisters party ends up getting invited to a party of her won, but their other youngest sister wants to go with her, just like she did for her older sister. Students can see the different points of view and make connections to how it feels for the middle sister to understand what she made her older sister go through.
3 Tiers of Vocab: 1) home 2)birthday 3) invitation
How Children Use
Book: Individually and Small Groups
Meets Needs: ELL students can use this book to relate to the cultures and names they may be familiar with in an Americanized setting just like the book
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