Dumplings, Latkes, and Lunar New Year 6-Pack

Kristy visits her grandma for Lunar New Year, but she feels nervous for her upcoming bat mitzvah. Can her Nainai help soothe her nerves despite their language barrier? This 6-Pack of fiction text cards is part of Culturally Authentic and Responsive Texts, a collection curated by Dr. Sharroky Hollie. Each text in this collection builds literacy while engaging seventh grade students in meaningful cultural connections.

Dumplings, Latkes, and Lunar New Year explores the struggles and fears children face as they get older. This engaging fiction text allows students to see themselves in the materials they are studying, while the accompanying lesson and activities help improve literacy skills.

• Focuses on the theme Rites of Passage
• Challenges students to consider how cultural factors contribute to their sense of identity
• Strengthens content-area literacy and vocabulary by defining unfamiliar words and terms
• Includes discussion questions, a writing prompt, and a creative activity

This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a content-area focused lesson plan.