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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for One Candle

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Use One Candle by Eve Bunting to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

One Candle is the story of a family's Hanukkah tradition. Every year, Grandma and Great Aunt Rose tell the story of how they risked their lives to secretly honor Hanukkah while imprisoned during the Holocaust. This story will support early readers in making connections, visualizing, asking questions, determining importance, and synthesizing.
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Asking Questions with One Candle

One Candle is a smart selection for students who are working to ask questions to improve reading comprehension. The story is about Hanukkah and the Holocaust. One or both of these themes will be unfamiliar to most children, so they will naturally wonder and ask questions to elaborate on the text.
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RL.2.1,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Determining Importance with One Candle

This story within a story text structure spans generations. Readers will have to practice focusing on the main message to determine which details are the most important to accurately summarize.
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RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
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2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Connections with One Candle

One Candle is ideal for a lesson on making connections. Students will deepen their understanding by making text-to-self connections to their own family's history and traditions. More advanced readers can also apply previous knowledge from other readings to make connections to the history of the Holocaust.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.1A,2.1C,2.1D,2.6A,2.6E,2.6I,2.7A,2.7B,2.7C,2.7D,2.7E,2.7F,2.8C,2.13C,2.13E,2.13G
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Synthesizing with One Candle

Using One Candle as an anchor text, students will need to demonstrate their ability to apply multiple comprehension strategies to shape their opinions and understanding of the events and characters throughout the story.
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RL.2.1,RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
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2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with One Candle

The author of One Candle uses detailed language to depict the scenes of this story, which will help readers identify new words that support their ability to visualize. Readers can also check their mental images against the soft illustrations in the book.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6D,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Contractions with One Candle

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use One Candle by Eve Bunting as a springboard for instruction focused on contractions.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how contractions are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with One Candle

This set of vocabulary development resources for One Candle 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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with One Candle

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of One Candle.
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Running Record with One Candle

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with One Candle. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Cause and Effect Matching with One Candle

Read One Candle then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in One Candle. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with One Candle

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of One Candle includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
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Main Idea and Details with One Candle

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Asking Questions with One Candle (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with One Candle (Spanish)

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Making Connections with One Candle (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with One Candle (Spanish)

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Visualizing with One Candle (Spanish)

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Main Idea and Details with One Candle (Spanish)

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Title: One Candle
Author: Eve Bunting
Genre: Historical Fiction
Themes: Family, Hanukkah
ISBN: 9780060085605
Publisher's Summary:
For teachers seeking a moving and meaningful addition to classroom discussions about Hanukkah, family traditions, and resilience, One Candle by Eve Bunting offers a powerful narrative rooted in both history and hope. The story centers on a family who gathers each year to celebrate Hanukkah, but their celebration holds special significance. Amid the familiar rituals and festive atmosphere, Grandma and Great-Aunt Rose share a story from their childhood—a story they retell every year. As they recount their experience, students are introduced to the sisters' courageous act during a time of great hardship: while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, they risked everything to secretly create a single Hanukkah candle using only a potato and margarine. This improvised candle, lit in secrecy, becomes a symbol of perseverance, faith, and the enduring power of tradition.

The narrative, enhanced by K. Wendy Popp's evocative pastel illustrations, weaves together the warmth of family connections with the gravity of history, making abstract concepts like remembrance and resilience accessible to young readers. One Candle not only explores the historical context of the Holocaust but also demonstrates how stories, rituals, and symbols can link generations and inspire hope. The book encourages children to reflect on the importance of remembering both hardships and triumphs, and how families can honor their past together. Its sensitive portrayal of difficult topics makes it a valuable resource for upper elementary grades, supporting lessons in history, world religions, and character education.
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