114. The Gold Coin by Alma Flor Ada
October 18, 2009
Retell: A thief discovers a woman who claims to be the “richest person in the world.” He ransacks her hut but fails to find her gold. He goes on a quest to find the woman and her gold. What he finds instead are people who teach him that being rich has little to do with gold.
Topics: gold, greed, thieves, kindness, hard work, acceptance
Units of Study: Character, Social Issues, Talking and Writing about Texts
Tribes: mutual respect
Reading Skills: prediction, interpretation, inference, empathy
Writing Skills: incorporating the rule of three
My Thoughts: I first discovered this story when I went to a Great Books training years ago. I’ve since used it a few times during the Character unit. It is a great text for examining how people can change because of their relationships with other people. It’s a great text to use when you are launching whole class conversation during and after read alouds.
Entry Filed under: Female Authors, Latino Authors, Picture Books. Tags: acceptance, character, empathy, gold, greed, hard work, inference, interpretation, kindness, mutual respect, prediction, rule of three, social issues, talking and writing about texts, thieves.
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