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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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.1cSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.1

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2.8C2.1D2.13A2.6A2.13C2.6B2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C

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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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.7RL.2.10

TEKS Alignment

2.8A2.6B2.8C2.6E2.9C2.6G2.13C2.6I2.13E2.7A2.13G2.7B2.7C2.1A2.7D2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A

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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

RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.10

TEKS Alignment

2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I2.7A2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.13C2.6A

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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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bRL.2.1SL.2.2RL.2.2SL.2.3RL.2.3W.2.8RL.2.4L.2.6RL.2.5RL.2.6

TEKS Alignment

2.8C2.1D2.9C2.6A2.13C2.6B2.13E2.6H2.13G2.6I2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C

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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

RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3

TEKS Alignment

2.10C2.6E2.13C2.6I2.13E2.7A2.13G2.7B2.7C2.7D2.1A2.7E2.1C2.7F2.1D2.8C2.6A2.9C2.6D

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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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About the Book

Title: One Candle

Author: Eve Bunting

Genre: Historical Fiction

Themes: Family, Hanukkah

ISBN: 9780060085605

Publisher's Summary:

For one family the traditional Hanukkah celebration has a deeper meaning. Amidst the food and the festivities, Grandma and Great-Aunt Rose begin their story -- the one they tell each year. They pass on to each generation a tale of perseverance during the darkest hours of the Holocaust, and the strength it took to continue to honor Hanukkah in the only way they could. Their story reaffirms the values of tradition and family, but also shows us that by continuing to honor the tragedies and the triumphs of the past there will always be hope for the future.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for One Candle