Book Title: The Rough-Faced Girl
Author: Rafe Martin
Illustrator: David Shannon
Genre: Traditional Literature
Summary: A young Native American girl who has been tormented by her older sisters, sets out to marry the villages 'invisible being'. Only the girl who has seen him can marry him.
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 write or say things that describe the rough-faced girl before and after she meets the invisible being physically and emotionally and do the same for her older sisters. They can also talk abut where the invisible being was hidden in the pictures.
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: Students can tell the tone of the characters and their personalities by the the way dialogue is read, ex: the sisters act and speak in a vain way and the rough-faced girl speaks sweetly.
3 Tiers of Vocab: 1) plants, animals 2) bow and arrow 3) wigwam
How Children Use Book: Centers
Meets Needs: Gifted students can use this book to learn about why this story might be relevant to native culture
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