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The theme of my text set is cultural traditions, specifically food customs, since it is a huge component of culture. Each book discovers that there are certainly differences between food across many cultures and although it may seem strange or different, we can try something new and learn about other cultures as well as our own. Essentially, food creates a sense of unity and allows us to come together, no matter what culture an individual is from.

I discovered these books by going to my town's library and also, I had heard some of these books being read during my field observations in school. In addition, I had also used library blogs.

To ensure that each learner's needs are met, I made sure I found audio versions of each book, besides having a physical copy. Also, for multilingual learners, I will provide a vocabulary list of words in English, as well as their native language as well.

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Lily and Salma are best friends who do everything together, they even eat their lunches together.  However, they noticed how different their lunches looked from one another. While Lily eats a peanut butter jelly sandwich, Salma eats hummus on pita bread- and they both think each other's sandwich is gross and strange. Their disagreements come in between their friendship, and it even causes a food fight. Yet, the friends accept their differences and even try each other's lunch. Lily, Salma and her classmates even have a lunch with foods that come from all different cultures!

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Students will be given a worksheet called, "When I tried something new". They will illustrate the activity and write how they felt during this journey. They will compare their feelings to how one of the characters felt, either Lily or Salma.

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2W4: Create a response to a text, author, theme or personal experience

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1. Sandwich
2. Insult
3. Rowdy
4. Splattered

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Carrie and her brother are called for dinner by their mother. However, Anthony is nowhere to be found. Carrie goes to find her brother and stops at each neighbor's house. Along the way, she goes from house to house and tastes their dinner. Although each of her neighbors come from different places around the world, such as Barbados, Vietnam, China and India, they all had rice for dinner, except each neighbor cooked rice their own way. Carrie was able try each culture's dish of rice, which exposed her to try something new.

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Students will create a web to note all of the different countries they heard during the story. They will also write the name of each rice dish that corresponds with that specific culture.

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2SL2: Recount or describe key ideas or details of diverse texts and formats

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1. Rice
2. Delicious
3. Dinner
4. Taste

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A young girl tells the love story of how her parents met. Her mother, Aiko, is Japanese, and her father, John, is American. However, her parents were met with some difficulties, because of their cultural differences. As a result, her mother learned to eat with a fork and a knife while her father learned to use chopsticks. Essentially, this is why her family uses chopsticks somedays for dinner and forks and knives on other days.

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Students will create a Venn-diagram of the differences between the two cultures and how they eat.

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2R1: Develop and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of key ideas and details in a text.

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1. Chopsticks
2. Foreigner
3. Encourage
4. Kimono

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Cora, a young Filipino girl, wants to become more involved in her family's cooking; she wants to do some of the "grown-up" jobs, like shredding the chicken or straining the noodles. Finally, she is given the chance to cook alongside her mother as they make a traditional noodle dish called pancit. She is given an apron that belonged to her grandfather, Lolo, who was actually a chef. With much surprise, Cora discovers so much about her grandfather as she cooks this special dish. In addition, Cora felt so proud of herself for accomplishing this goal of hers.

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Students will discuss how proud Cora felt as her family enjoyed her cooking. In addition, students will journal about a time where they felt the same way as Cora, including any discoveries or obstacles they encountered along the way.

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2R9: Make connections between self and text (texts and other people/world).

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1. Straining
2. Ingredients
3. Recipe
4. Apron

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Bilal invites his friends over for dinner and his family is making his favorite dish ever called daal. His friends have never had daal, but once they see all of the ingredients, they are unsure if they want to try it because it looks "funny". As a result, Bilal becomes worried if his friends will not like it. In the end, his friends end up loving daal and are thrilled to have tried Bilal's family dish.

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Just like Daal shared his favorite dish with his friends, students will share their favorite dish. They will illustrate their favorite food and the ingredients they use to make it. Students will share their writing and illustration with a partner.

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2W4: Create a response to a text, author, theme or personal experience.

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1. Clatters
2. Patience
3.  Worried
4. Dice