Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun By: Maria Dismondy

Book Title: Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun

Author: Maria Dismondy

Illustrator: Kimberly Shaw-Peterson

Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction 

Summary: A young girl named Lucy finds the courage to be different after a bully at school teases her

ELA Content Standard 1: Grade 3, Key Ideas and Details #3- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

How it Connects:Students can make connections to how Lucy felt when she was being bullied and how how the bully felt after she was still nice to him

ELA Content Standard 2: Grade 2, Fluency #4a- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension: Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

How it Connects: Appropriate for grades 2 and 3 (self reading) with larger print and recognizable words for the age group

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1)school 2)breakfast 3) distance

How Children Use Book: Individually and Centers

Meets Needs: ELL students can use this as a way to seem themselves to embrace their differences (mirrors vs. windows)