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The book is a great book in showing a child how to remain humble even if they don't have everything the people around them may have. It helps promote thankfulness for what you have and what is all around you such as nature.

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3-5 years
Students who may struggle with the idea that those around may not have the same exact privileges that they have. This would interest those who like colorful pages with lots of imagery included in the text to keep the students engaged.

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5.3 Summarizing What's Most Essential
This connection to Serravallo will help students who need help summarizing the story. For younger kids starting by looking at the pictures and retelling what is happening but as they get older they can do a fordable that has beginning, middle, and end on it with a character and setting portion to keep in mind how they are supposed to retell the story in the order that it happened.

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This book is a diary style book that goes with a young girl from Vietnam after the war, whose family was trying to create a better life for her. It also documents her struggles as a child who does not speak very good English in a world where this is something foreign and the other people around them have a hard time adjusting to it. It is a new world for Ha that she must grow accustomed to as well as her family in a time that not many people are open to other cultures.

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This short picture book is a book that contains affirmations for students especially if they are not feeling confident. It also goes through and the students talk about how things might be hard for you and are not hard for me, however we can do everything together in this huge world we live in.

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Sonia Sotomayor did an excellent job of incorporating differences that children might come across in their lifetime and how that might look. It was nice to be able to gain an understanding from a perspective of someone who might be silently dealing with something because they don’t want to talk about it.

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This book tells a wonderful story of a young Chinese girl and her family that have immigrated to the United States, along with their hardships of biases that involve a different race. Mia follows in the footsteps of her culture throughout the book by working hard with her family to make a better life for themselves by any means possible. It is a great story for young readers to read through to think about how hard someone else’s life may be and how by helping those around them by just being kind and willing to help, maybe they can make an impact on that person’s life.

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This short book highlights putting aside differences of different backgrounds and coming together to gather. It’s a great book to introduce to the class as a multicultural book and it is based off a song created by Bob Marley so when incorporating it into the class it can be used in different lessons.

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10+

This book is for older children who may be wondering about the life of someone who may have immigrated to this country and doesn’t speak very good English. Or this book may be incorporated into a class with a student who may have trouble speaking English and the teacher wants the students to have a deeper understanding of what that child may be going through by coming from a different country and having to face culture shock by just jumping into a new life.

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5-11 years

This book is a good reminder to those students who feel like their confidence is low and that they are below everyone else. It is helpful reminders that they can do things that other people can’t but that everyone is special in their own way and have their own personality traits that make them who they are. It is also helpful for the students who struggle to fit in and gives them helpful affirmations to lean on.

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4-8 Years old

Students in a classroom who are gaining an understanding of those who are around them. This book will give them a better insight to those students who may not want to discuss private matters with them but feel disconnected from the classroom environment because no one really understands what is going on.

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9+

This book will encourage children to be open minded and willing to help those with differences around them. It will also open their eyes to the many biases people of different cultures may face in society that they can start changing. It will also help them start making an impact on people’s lives even if they are nice to a person for just a few short minutes.

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2-5 Years Old

This book will help young children who are entering the world and seeing many different things but not completely understanding it such as race and ethnicity. It will help them understand that everyone has one heart and it all works the same so everyone can gather and get along.

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Hidden Figures shows the life of four black women who all accomplished their goals by working hard and never giving up. They all helped in the space race and accomplished things that no black woman had ever done before causing them to go down in history. This is a great book that tells about the history and how four people made a huge impact to history changing things for the better.

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There is an important message that this book carries for the readers who may read it. Sherri Winston did an excellent job of creating this black female empowerment in an elementary school class. She showed that you can do anything you set your mind too and even if mistakes are made, depending on how you fix them is what shows your true character, and this in the end is what really matters regardless of the outcome.

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8-12-years

This book is a great book for young females to read about going after what you want in a wholistic way. It does a great job of showing that how a person handles things even if they originally make a mistake will in the end show their character for the better. Mistakes happen and that seemed to be a big message in this book, but it can be fixed and in the end work out even if it wasn’t what was originally planned.

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6.1 How's the Character Feeling?
This will help the students with the inferring skill by the student going through each page and thinking about what is happening, the setting, and the positive affirmations mentioned by the character.

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5.2 Title Power
This is another great book to use the title as a reference point. The activity can be used to help students understand the importance of different students with different needs but to be confident and ask what can help them and what is going to make them feel comfortable.

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9.18 Answering Questions
This book and strategy will work together because of the format of the book. The student may form questions as they read, while they do this they can write the questions down and as they read can answer it or sometimes they may need to do deeper thinking about the text they just read.

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6.20 Conflict Brings Complexity
The conflict brings complexity strategy will help students with inferring and synthesizing. There are many ups and down in this book so by considering the different situations the character is put into and how the character acts after each situation will help the student better comprehend the story.

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4-8

This is a great non-fiction book for students to read that shows the incredible story of four black women who change history by working hard and never giving up on their dreams. This will help show young girls that they can strive for anything they want but they have to work for it and shows how society was in the 1940’s and how it has come a long way. Young boys can also read this and take away how hard these women worked as well as take a look into how different people of color were segregated and the world has changed a lot since then, but to never put anyone down based on color or gender.

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9.2 Reading with a Sense of "Wow"
This activity will help readers read with the idea that they are about to learn something amazing that they they never knew before. It creates the skill of monitoring for meaning, going in with the understanding that they are looking for something new.

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5.1 Lean on the Picture
This strategy is for younger readers who need to use the pictures as a way of understanding the story. This activity can be used along with the song to help students determine the importance of what is happening in the story and will be able to retell what is happening by understanding what is going on in the pictures.

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7.10 Actions, Outcomes, Response
This strategy will help when trying to teach a child about how their actions will effect many things around them and how they react to it. When applying it to the book it will help inferring, determining the importance, and synthesizing skills. The student will be able to break the book down and consider each character and how they handled the situation. It would be a great book for fifth grade girls who may be friends but have gotten into petty arguments and need a little guidance.

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This book is an excellent portrayal of two very different student’s lives in elementary school and their everyday lives as they move through the motions. The two boys find as they move through their fifth-grade year and face similar struggles that in the end bring them together. I enjoyed how the story progressed and had the different viewpoints allowing the reader to relate to one student or the other, creating this connection with the readers.

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8-12-year old’s

This book will target those students who may feel like they stick out in the crowd, it will also show students even if on the outside it seems that the differences outweigh the similarities, once they get to know the other person they may find more things in common than what they originally thought. It’s a good book to make students more confident in the classroom and outside world and will encourage them to face their challenges with help from others that may be going through the same thing.

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This book shows not only how a young person of color has to deal with having hair that is different but also has to deal with trying to figure out how to fix it. It is an inspiring book for young girls to read because it shows that they are beautiful regardless of how their hair is and that they can also rely on their dads to help them fix their hair if their other parent is not around.

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2-12 years old

Young girls that are trying to figure out their hair and young girls who may have different hair types that don’t really understand the different types of products that it takes on different textures.

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5.25 Double Plot Mountain
The strategy of the double plot mountain will aid students especially with this book. Since this book bounces between two different characters, it will come in handy for the students to have a visual in front of them so they can keep track of what is happening in the book. This will aid in their reading by monitoring for meaning, visualizing.

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5.2 Title Power
This strategy will help students determine the importance of the book. By having the students read and remember back to the title of the book will help them as they are reading and taking in key information. It will help them understand what the whole book is talking about.