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Early elementary educators, political, and environmental buffs alike will love the recent addition of Children’s Book: My Letter to Barack Obama to the Curriki collection.

Written by children’s book author Lana Dajani:

The book is about an 8-year-old girl – Ella – who is passionate about the environment. As she rides the bus to school, Ella notices that her community is polluted. At school, she finds that students leave trash behind on the playground after lunch. Ella leads by example and encourages her classmates to clean up and pick up trash off the playground.

Ella wants to create a National Cleanup Day so that children and adults across the United States can get involved and help protect the environment. She writes a letter to President Barack Obama because she realizes that he has access to a larger audience.

To accompany her delightful and educational story, Dajani teamed up with educator and consultant Kevin Simpson, founder of Know.Do.Serve.Learn, to create a full unit of instruction around the book aligned with both the National Council of Teachers of English and International Reading Association Standards. Filled with interactive pre, during, and post reading activities to build student reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills, this fun and engaging unit is not to be missed! Furthermore, many of the suggested activities and comprehension charts can be printed out and used for other stories (e.g., Word Castles, Readers Theater, Making Connections charts, etc.)

• To purchase a copy of the book, click here.
• To download the free curricula to accompany the book click here.
• To learn more about the book, author Lana Dajani and illustrator Emanuela Corti, click here.

Happy Almost President’s Day!

Anna Batchelder

Curriki International Consultant

@Curriki

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Note: The illustration above is the property of author Lana Dajani and illustrator Emanuela Corti and has been reproduced here with permission.