Lucky Beans By: Becky Birtha

Book Title: Lucky Beans 
Author: Becky Birtha

Illustrator: Nicole Tadgell

Genre: Historical Fiction

Summary: A boy growing up in the great depression wants his mother to enter to win a contest for a new sewing machine. To win, they need to guess the number of beans in a jar. The boy knows about estimation from what he learned at school and applies that to help her win the contest.    

ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 3, Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity #10- By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

How it Connects:Students can see historical significance with the times of the great depression and I can easily connect this to a math curriculum 

ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #6- Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.

How it Connects: Students can use the mathematical arithmetic drawing in the book to see how they came up with their estimation

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) jar 2)contest 3) arithmetic

How Children Use Book: Small Groups

Meets Needs: Gifted students can use this book to see how much things like the sewing machine would cost now