My Name Is Shoshana 6-pack Author: Dan Taulapapa McMullin ISBN: 9780790321028 Lesson Plan Blackline Master 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
• 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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