We love books that celebrate diversity and teach students about accepting others. The book Not Quite Snow White is a great example of appreciating what makes us different and the differences of others. This is a story that all students can relate to, the feeling of not being good enough. It is sure to inspire you students to be confident in themselves and proud of who they are. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
Not Quite Snow White is about a girl named Tameika. Tameika loves to perform, and has loved every role she’s had. When she finds out that the school play is Snow White, Tameika can’t wait to audition and be a princess. However, Tameika overhears other students saying that she is too tall, too chubby, and too brown to be a princess.
Tameika becomes upset and starts to question whether or not she can be a princess because of her appearance. When she goes home, her parents help her get her confidence back and realize that she is just enough of everything needed to be a princess. Tameika goes back to school to audition the next day, and remembers all the good things about herself. She blows everyone away with her audition, and becomes Snow White.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
While we love using Not Quite Snow White as a read aloud because it can be used to teach many other skills and strategies. Below we’ve identified some of the ways teachers can integrate this book into lessons on comprehension, writing, grammar, and social emotional learning.
- Practice identifying character traits that describe the main character.
- Help students learn about the main idea and identifying details that relate to the main idea.
- Ask students to write a poem about the main character in the story.
- Integrate writing by having students teach about the story of Snow White.
- Teach a lesson on action verbs and nouns.
- Have students practice using adjectives.
- Discuss the importance of having high self esteem and the effects low self esteem can have on a person.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
We spent the time reading Not Quite Snow White and selecting the best strategies and skills it can be used to teach. We’ve designed a variety of lessons that are specific to this book so teachers just need to grab the book and start teaching.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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