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Food & Stories · Lesson 4Published: 2026-04-26

Preparing for Interviews

Learners reflect about their relationship with favorite family recipes and brainstorm questions they would like to ask a family member about food or recipes. This is preparation for a family interview.

SUBJECTEnglish Language Arts
GRADE3rd Grade
Made forSheikh Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
Illustration of a jiddo (grandfather)

Learning Objectives

  • I can have collaborative discussions with my friends, my family, my teacher, or other community members on a topic. I can build on others’ ideas and express my own ideas clearly. (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1)
  • I understand that I can tell a story in many different and creative ways.

Essential Questions

  • How is food connected to stories?
  • What can we learn about ourselves, our families and our local traditions/ histories through food?

Lesson Plan

Summarize what the learners already know about stories and reflect on the memories that were conjured up during the visualization exercise/comics. Hold a brief discussion with learners asking the following questions:

Now that we have been reflecting on stories through different mentor texts and examples, on a large anchor chart, create a table:

Drawing

Writing

Comic strips

Materials

INCLUDED MATERIALS
Mentor texts: ways I can tell my family’s storyأكلنا من
NEEDED MATERIALS
  • “What are stories?” T-chart from lesson one
  • Anchor chart paper for a “Ways I can tell my family’s story” chart
  • Writing materials
  • Paper
  • Arabic classrooms — أكلنا من, a series featuring traditional meals from cities across Saudi Arabia (Aseer, Mecca, Medina, Qassim, Riyadh, etc.)
  • English classrooms — Sundays Are For Feasts, Leila Boukarim and Ruaida Mannaa
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