Table of Contents
Background Information (pp. 3-4)
• About “Danbi Leads the School Parade”
• About the Author-Illustrator
• About this guide
General Read Aloud (pp. 5)
• Discussion questions
Lesson Ideas On Character Development (pp. 6-10)
• Character Traits
• Getting to Know Characters by Their Wants, Feelings, and Actions
• Wants vs. Needs
• Point of View
• Author’s Craft - Show Don’t Tell
Cross-Curricular Activities (pp. 11-16)
• ART: #ColorWithDanbi, Coloring Pages
• Social-Emotional Learning: Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment
• Social Studies: Korean Culture, Immigrant Experience stories
Appendix (pp. 17)
• What Students Should Know About Character by Grade Level
For more ideas on how to incorporate Danbi Leads the School Parade in your class, visit Danbi’s and Penguin Classroom’s websites: https://www.DanbiAndFriends.com/activities https://www.penguinclassroom.com/books/danbi-leads-the-school-parade/
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About This Book
Title: Danbi Leads the School Parade
Author and illustrator : Anna Kim
Ages: 3 - 7 years / Preschool - 2
Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers (July 7, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0451478894
When Danbi, a little Korean girl, walks into her new school in America, everything goes quiet; everyone stares. Danbi joins in the games, but their rules are terribly confusing and she keeps messing up. Luckily, Danbi isn’t one to give up. With a spark of imagination, she makes up a new game and leads her classmates on a parade to remember!
Review Highlights:
“Enchanting illustrations dazzle—particularly through the diverse characters’ hair and facial expressions that detail individuals’ unique traits while celebrating the entire cohort. Imaginative, irreverent, improvisational fun in kindergarten.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A sweet and helpful book for children who are nervous about moving or starting a new school—or any big change.” School Library Journal
“Kim’s debut radiates positivity, inclusivity, and hope.” —Publishers Weekly
“The touches of onomatopoeia throughout make for an effective build to the cheerful parade scene, and there is both a delicacy and a richness to Kim’s art, with fine, detailed linework and whimsical figures met with bold colors and sleek, linear compositions.” —The Bulletin
About the Author-Illustrator
Anna Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and grew up doodling around the edges of her notebooks and any loose scraps of paper she could find. A classically trained pianist with a B.A. in psychology from Wellesley College, she devoted herself to teaching music to young children. During those years of teaching, Anna discovered that drawing stories on yellow stickies worked wonders when kids needed a little pick-me-up. That’s when she decided to expand her canvas from stickies to picture books, and to pursue her newfound purpose:
“Through picture and word, I want to surprise, inspire and delight children with fun and heartwarming stories. I want to plant seeds of love and kindness through living characters who jump off the page and touch the reader with genuine emotions. I want those characters to show kids of all sizes, shapes and colors what it’s like to be courageous, resilient and empathetic heroes. I want to show readers the magic of friendship in transforming our beliefs, our hearts and our lives forever”
About this Guide
To further Anna Kim’s purpose, this guide will help develop the following concepts and content:
• Character Development the lessons in this guide build off of one another to scaffold understanding of character development. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.)
• Art—Students color and expand on Danbi illustrations. (National Core Arts Standards, Anchor Standard #1 Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.)
• Social-Emotional Learning—Students engage in identifying teachers’ and students’ roles in developing a warm, welcoming classroom. (CASEL guideline #4 Create a Positive Learning Environment.)
• Social Studies—Students engage in social studies themes of Culture: People, Places, and Environment; and Individual Development and Identity by exploring Danbi’s culture and immigrant experience. (NCSS Strands 1, 3, and 4 )
Pamela Brunskill, this guide’s author, is a literacy coach, developer of educational resources, and writer. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education, and is permanently certified to teach preschool to 6th grade, as well as secondary social studies in New York. She has worked in education for over 20 years as an elementary and middle school teacher, consultant, literacy coach, and college instructor. At the college level, she taught literacy and Language Arts methods courses at Bloomsburg University, Bucknell University, and the University at Buffalo, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning (CISL) at the University at Buffalo.
