The Same But Different Too

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Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2023 have been announced, with one winner from each of the four categories announced: Picture book, Children... Cather, Willa. "Double Birthday.""Uncle Valentine and Other Stories." University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb., 1986.

This realistic fiction book would be great to read aloud to children in grades K-5, as it should spark many wonderful conversations about differences and similarities amongst cultures. I think that this would give students an understanding of the cultures of people around the world, and even their own classroom! I truly believe that when people understand each other, they are less likely to judge.

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Mrs. Parmenter laughed at his _____ [ allusion or illusion] to their summer at Mrs. Sterrett's, in Rome, and gave him her coat to hold." From the bestselling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, this picture book encourages children to celebrate uniqueness and diversity and helps them to challenge stereotypes. Molly Potter's books are just gorgeous and this one is another winner!' Kathy Brodie, Early Years expert and host of Early Years TV He was wearing a new hat of a pretty biscuit shade, for it never occurred to him to _____ [ buy, by, or bye] anything of a practical color; he had put it on for the first time and the rain was spoiling it."

Applying: What kinds of questions would you ask in your letter to Kailash? What kinds of questions would you ask in your letter to Elliot? The Same but Different is a great starting point for conversations about inclusion. The bright, colourful illustrations and clear explanations engage children of all ages from the outset. I have this book on display and it has prompted children to broaden their perspectives and think about their differences. I read this with my pupil voice group and they enjoyed thinking about how boring the world would be if we were all exactly the same. Homophones are words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling. These words may be spelled differently from each other (such as to, too, and two), or they may be spelled the same way (as in quail meaning ‘to cower’ and quail meaning a type of bird). A. Text to Self Connection: I love meeting people who are not from Omaha and especially when they are not from the United States. I find it fascinating to hear their stories. I notice our differences but, I'm amazed by our similarities. For instance, I was looking at a photo from a refugee camp in Thailand and was amazed to see satellite dishes fixed to the top of some of the bamboo homes and hear that many of these bamboo homes were wired for television!

Elliot and Kailash are new pen pals. As they share letters, they share the differences and similarities of their lives in Elliot’s America and Kailash’s India. Both boys like to climb trees. Their families are very different with Elliot living with his mother, father and baby sister and Kailash living with an extended family of 23. They both have pets, but the pets are different. Both boys take a bus to school, but the communities are very different except for the traffic. The boys discover that they can be friends despite their obvious differences by looking to see how much they are actually they same. On a Saturday morning soon after he came to live with her, he turned over her garbage while she was at the grocery store and _____ [ ate or eight] rancid bacon drippings out of a small Crisco can." Her art is very effective as well, rendering both cultures with bright colors, plenty of motion, and a natural energy that captures the eye. She makes the differences between the cultures quite compelling.