Book Title: Adelita
Author: Tomie dePaola
Illustrator: Tomie dePaola
Genre: Traditional Literature
Summary: A Mexican spin on a traditional Cinderella story
ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 2, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #8- Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
How it Connects: There are many versions of Cinderella and taking time to go through a few different ones will be beneficial to help the students compare and contrast similarities and differences between texts of the same story line.
ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Key Ideas and Details #2- Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
How it Connects: This interpretation of Cinderella is culturally diverse with the Mexican influence and tells a central message to not be greedy and to always be kind and work hard to receive good things
3 Tiers of Vocab: 1) family, party 2) jealous 3) widow
How Children Use Book: Independent and Small Groups
Meets Needs: ELL, this book has many spanish phrases translated
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