Ruby's Chinese New Year is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"Ruby's Chinese New Year" by Vickie Lee is a heartwarming children's book that follows Ruby, a young girl celebrating Chinese New Year with her family. Ruby is excited to participate in the traditions and festivities that come with the holiday but realizes that her grandmother is unable to travel this year to join the fun! Ruby decides to bring the Chinese New Year fun to her grandmother and so she embarks on her journey where she meets many kind and helpful animal friends along the way. Throughout the adventure and arriving at her final destination Ruby learns about the importance of family, friends and ritauls! Through colorful illustrations and descriptive text, the book beautifully portrays the customs and symbols associated with Chinese New Year, fostering cultural understanding and appreciation. "Ruby's Chinese New Year" is a delightful tale that captures the excitement, love, and sense of renewal that come with the holiday season.
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Have students sequence the important events in the story. This is an important skill when it comes to retelling a story.
- Practice identifying the main idea and key details.
- Introduce pronouns and practice using them.
- Explain to students the various ways to use a comma.
- Discuss friendship and the qualities that make a good friend.
- Explore the theme of gratitude and have students brainstorm ways they can help show gratitude.
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
- 30Â 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
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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