Use Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Mailard to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Fry Bread: A Native American Story shares the history, culture, and tradition of a special Native American dish, fry bread. Through powerfully written verse and playful illustrations, students can discover that fry bread is more than just a food, it is all of us. The story celebrates Native American life while reminding us of the importance of family and love.
This resource set features a lesson on double consonants, a vocabulary list that includes several Native American terms, and an extension activity that will inspire reflection and creativity among all students. Students can delve into comprehension skills such as making inferences, making connections, asking questions, determining importance, and identifying the author's purpose.
The verse-style writing in Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, gives readers continuous opportunities to ask questions about the words that the author artfully chooses. While the text offers valuable information, students are also left to wonder more about what fry bread is and what it means to Native Americans.
Students will enjoy asking questions about this wonderful food representing a deep Native Indian history and a new tradition of sharing fry bread with everyone.
In the award-winning book Fry Bread, author Kevin Maillard tells the important story of a special food and shares factual information about the history, culture, and tradition of Native American lives. In the first several pages of the book, fry bread is referred to as a food by both text and illustration. As the story progresses, students can determine the deeper meaning of fry bread for Native Indians, and find that this is more than just a celebrated dish, it is an important symbol to Native people. Fry Bread ends with an author's note, which provides readers with further, important information on this special Native American food.
Author Kevin Maillard, a member of the Seminole Nation, tells the story of his family's food and history. Through this lens, students can identify Maillard's purpose behind specific wording in the text, Fry Bread: A Native American Story. The author includes his family's recipe for fry bread at the end of the story, allowing students to think further about Maillard's purpose for sharing the deep and long history behind fry bread.
Both text and illustration lend themselves to making connections in Fry Bread by Kevin Maillard. Students can make connections between the story of fry bread and what they have learned about Native Americans in school. Maillard writes in a way that includes the reader in the tradition of fry bread and offers opportunities for students to make text-to-self connections as they read. The story of Fry Bread is sure to inspire connections to other stories, the world around us, and the readers themselves!
The verse-style writing in Fry Bread gives readers some information, but students must use carefully crafted words and illustrations to infer more of fry bread's history, tradition, and meaning. Award-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal depicts fry bread in a way that helps bring Kevin Maillard's words to life and provides a deeper understanding and context for the text. Students will enjoy practicing their inference skills in this beautifully written and illustrated story.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how double consonants are used inside the text before engaging in guided and independent practice with consonants.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Fry Bread highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
