Explain what the title of the book means: I Have a Right to Culture. Ask: What is a right? Record student responses on chart paper.
Explain to students what a right is and how children’s rights came in to being. Say: A long time ago, people from all over the world got together to talk about children. They all thought that children were special. They thought that it didn’t matter if children were big or little. It didn’t matter what a child’s language and culture was. It didn’t matter what things a child liked or what things they didn’t like. They recognized that ALL children were special. They wrote down a list of rules to make sure that children everywhere could be safe, happy and healthy. These people decided that every child in the world should have these things — and they called them “rights.”