Teachable Texts

125. Under the Lemon Moon by Edith Hope Fine

November 7, 2009 at 6:00 pm Leave a comment

Retell: One evening Rosalinda awakes to find a man stealing lemons from her lemon tree.  During the theft, a branch is broken and the tree becomes sick.  Rosalinda searches her village for a cure.  A mysterious woman helps her cure her sick tree and help a family in need.

Topics: theft, family, community, trees, kindness

Units of Study: Realistic Fiction, Social Issues, Talking and Writing About Texts

Tribes: personal best, mutual respect

Habits of Mind: thinking flexibly

Reading Skills: empathy, interpretation, inference, monitoring for sense

Writing Skills: using words to describe sound, using interesting verbs, incorporating foreign languages

My Thoughts: This is a text that can be useful for many units and for many purposes.  As I was reading this text I immediately noticed the beautiful verbs the author uses.  A reader who is unfamiliar with the vocabulary in the text can easily figure out the meaning of the words by thinking about the context.  It’s a great text for teaching the strategy of playing ‘fill in the bank’ when solving tricky words.

Entry filed under: Female Authors, Picture Books. Tags: community, empathy, family, fill in the blank, foreign languages, inference, interpretation, kindness, monitoring for sense, mutual respect, personal best, realistic fiction, social issues, sound, talking and writing about texts, theft, thinking flexibly, trees, verbs.