Me Ilamo Shoshana 6-pack Author: Dan Taulapapa McMullin ISBN: 9780790328850 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Author's purpose, Main ideas, Summarizing Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family, School and Community Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

Shoshana is starting a new school, and her mother explains that some of the children may have difficulty pronouncing her name.  Shoshana’s teacher introduces a game to help the class learn to say her name correctly and ensure that Shoshana feels welcomed and happy.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of summarizing the main ideas, noting details in illustrations, and understanding the author’s purpose.  The sensitive illustrations are a rich source of meaning.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the themes of inclusiveness and of the importance of pronouncing names correctly
• the feelings of the characters revealed in the text and in the illustrations
• the roles of Shoshana’s mother and the teacher
• the satisfying ending that links back to page 5
• the third-person narrator
• the inclusion of dialogue
• the indicators of time – as they walked, at last, after school, that night
• the adjectives – beautiful, excited, favorite, new, pink, pleased, proud, strong, yellow
• the contractions – couldn’t, didn’t, I’m, I’ll, it’s
• the possessive apostrophe – Shoshana’s
• the single quote marks for “criss-cross applesauce” on page 7
• the rhythm in “criss-cross applesauce”
• the instructions for the game on page 7

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