Falling in Love with Authors and Illustrators

Lesson 3
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ELA

Unit 4

Kindergarten

Lesson 3 of 22

Objective


Explain how the family’s fortune cookie fortunes came true and why by using details and illustrations to retell key details and events in a text.

Readings and Materials


  • Book: Fortune Cookie Fortunes by Grace Lin 

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Target Task


Discussion & Writing Prompt

Did the family’s fortune cookie fortunes come true? Why?

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Key Questions


  • What were the different fortunes the family members got? What do the different fortunes mean?

  • How did Ba-Ba’s fortune come true?

  • How did Ma-Ma’s fortune come true?

  • How did Jie-Jie’s fortune come true?

  • How did Mei-Mei’s fortune come true?

  • What does it mean to “see the world in fortune cookie fortunes?”

  • What fortune did the narrator get at the end? Why did she think it was true?

Vocabulary


contagious

adj.

causing others to feel a certain way that you are feeling

imagination

n.

creating pictures in your mind of things that are not real

fortune

n.

prediction about the future of the luck that someone will have

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Common Core Standards


  • L.K.4 — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.
  • RL.K.2 — With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
  • RL.K.6 — With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
  • RL.K.7 — With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

Supporting Standards

L.K.1.d
L.K.1.e
RL.K.1
RL.K.10

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