Carbs for Everyone: Everybody Cooks Rice.

How about a trip with your family this summer? Open the pages of Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley and join Carrie in her neighborhood in which every home is inhabited by a family from a different culture. Carrie is always happy to find her brother at dinnertime, because she ends up in a neighbor’s house sampling native foods!

The text of Everybody Cooks Rice is appropriate for students who have just begun reading, while the cross-cultural words will challenge experienced readers. Why not read this book together as a family? Put a map on the wall and pretend that you are visiting the many lands represented in the book. Use the cultures as a jumping off point to create research opportunities for your children: go to the library or search the web to find out more information about each country, books that bring the cultures to life through other characters, or find out more about the cultures of the people in your own neighborhood.

The best surprise of all: the recipe for each dish is provided in this narrative/cookbook! Home lesson, here we come. What fun you will have visiting markets to locate special ingredients. Have your children read the recipes in order to create shopping lists, and practice math skills while you buy and measure ingredients. Before you know it, it’s dinnertime. Whose turn is it to set the table?

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