Use The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Explore the delightful story of The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio, which highlights the importance of friendship, cultural appreciation, and embracing differences. This engaging resource package provides a variety of activities that strengthen students' comprehension skills through the strategies of Identifying Author's Purpose, Understanding Text Structure, and Making Predictions. Alongside comprehension practice, students will explore a fun word work activity and a creative extension activity that challenges learners to give an oral presentation. This resource inspires empathy, critical thinking, and personal reflection while making meaningful connections to the text.
The Sandwich Swap offers a wonderful opportunity for students to practice identifying the author's purpose. By examining the story's central message about respecting differences and promoting understanding, students will explore why the authors chose to share this powerful narrative. Questions will guide students to recognize the importance of inclusivity and kindness.
The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio is a great story to practice making predictions! From the moment Lily and Salma start to disagree about their sandwiches, students can predict what might happen next, how the argument will affect their friendship, and how things might be solved. As students read, they'll use clues from the text and illustrations to adjust their predictions and understand how small misunderstandings can lead to big lessons about friendship and acceptance.
The Sandwich Swap provides an excellent platform for analyzing text organization. Students will explore Lily and Salma's friendship through compare and contrast, and key events in the story through sequencing, cause and effect, and problem and solution. Students will understand how the structure reinforces the story's central lessons of friendship and celebrating cultural differences.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio as a springboard for instruction focused on syllables.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how 2-syllable long E words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with syllables.
This set of vocabulary development resources for The Sandwich Swap 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.
Read The Sandwich Swap 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 a hands-on and interactive way.
This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in The Sandwich Swap. 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.
Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Sandwich Swap 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.
In The Sandwich Swap, Lily and Salma show that even friends can have disagreements—but they also show how to make things right. In this interactive activity, students will cut out and match Friendship Problem Cards with the best Solution Cards. As they read and think through each scenario, they'll practice problem-solving and learn how to be thoughtful, respectful friends. A great way to build empathy and social-emotional skills through hands-on learning!
