by boot | Jul 22, 2025
Pre-teach key vocabulary (emigrate, memory, treasure, shell, firsts). Ask students to write or draw each word in a mini booklet. Each page includes: Word Picture “My sentence”: a simple sentence using the word.
by boot | Jul 22, 2025
Locate Jamaica and Canada on a map. Discuss key cultural elements of weather, homes and languages, etc. Cultural Elements to Explore: Jamaica Canada Homes and Environment Food Sounds & Nature Clothing Sports...
by boot | Jul 22, 2025
Discuss what a picture book is and how stories about moving or migration may follow personal narrative patterns. Tell students that this story is a personal narrative about a young girl that prepares to move from her island home in Jamaica to a new life in Canada....
by boot | Jul 22, 2025
Ask students to look closely and analyze the cover illustration and title to make predictions about the story’s setting and emotions. Prediction of Visual Elements My Predictions Where does the story take place? Who appears on the cover? What mood does...
by boot | Jul 22, 2025
Before the book is read, choose up to five words in the book that are unfamiliar to most of your students. Then, as they read, have the students find these words and try to infer the meaning by reading around the word. If they can’t infer the meaning, have them look...
