

Haiti Is My Home
Haiti Is My Home
Haiti Is My Home
Haiti Is My Home
Haiti Is My Home
Haiti Is My Home
Haiti Is My Home
Realistic (fiction), 833 words, Lexile 620L Level 3 Grades 2-3
Marie and her family left Haiti after an earthquake and moved to Boston. Marie hates living in Boston and misses everything about her life in Haiti. Then Marie's aunt and cousin Johanne move from Haiti to Boston, and Johanne helps Marie learn to look at Boston from a new, more optimistic perspective.
Lesson Resources
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Lesson Skills
Comprehension Skills and Strategies- Make predictions
- Sequence events
- Story elements: Analyze character
- Story elements: Problem and solution
- Text-to-self connections
Grammar and Mechanics
- Inflectional ending -ing
Word Work
- Book vocabulary
- Prefix re-
- Suffix -ful
Shared Writing and a Home Connection are integrated into one of the skills above.