AAPI Heritage: Literacy Activities for 13 AAPI Stories!
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**ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS CURRICULUM WILL SUPPORT THE FIGHT AGAINST AAPI HATE**
This collection of literacy activities for 13 AAPI stories is designed for 2nd and 3rd graders. Each picture book has companion graphic organizers and critical thinking activities, as well as nonfiction passages highlight the region or culture from the story.
This unit covers key literacy standards including: reading literature and nonfiction, comparing and contrasting, identifying cause and effect, identifying main ideas and details, summarizing, analyzing character, finding text evidence, and considering multiple perspectives.
Books in this AAPI Heritage Unit:
Two of Everything (Lily Toy Hong) • The Green Frogs (Yumi Heo) • Mela and the Elephant (Dow Phumiruk) • The Lotus Seed (Sherry Garland) • The Most Beautiful Thing (Kao Kalia Yang) • A Different Pond (Bao Phi) • The Name Jar (Yangsook Choi) • How My Parents Learned to Eat (Ina R. Friedman) • Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-Ji (F. Zia) • Cora Cooks Pancit • ‘Ohana Means Family (Ilima Loomis)
To learn more about each of the titles above, read our blog post!
