Third Graders Envision Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Third Graders have been thoroughly enjoying our read aloud time, where we have been reading Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, a children's fantasy adventure novel inspired by Chinese folklore. The read aloud time is a wonderful time for the class to bond in our investment in a shared story and to delve into conversations about the book. Often, students make predictions about what will happen next in the story based on what they know about the characters, ponder interesting questions, or make connections between their own lives and the story. In addition, third graders have been practicing their skills of summarizing and retelling through creating a summary of each chapter that we read together. Students then take turns creating beautiful illustrations of each chapter.