Read Aloud: The Red Dish

​Read Aloud:

The Red Dish

By Shelia Wright

​​Standards and Indicators:

Literary

RL.MC.5.1 Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use key details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read. 

RL.MC.5.2 Make predictions using prior knowledge, pictures, illustrations, title, and information about author and illustrator.

RL.MC.7.1 Retell text, including beginning, middle, and end; use key details to determine the theme in a text heard or read. 

RL.MC.7.2 Read or listen closely to compare and contrast familiar texts and texts in author and genre studies

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Informational

RI.MC.5.1 Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use key details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read. 

RI.MC.5.2 Make predictions using prior knowledge, pictures, illustrations, title, and information about author and illustrator.

RI.MC.7.1 Compare and contrast topics or ideas within a thematic or author study heard, read, or viewed.

Objectives:

​​→ I can ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of text.

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→ I can compare and contrast texts in a specific genre or by a specific author.

The Red Dish

The next day, Kay has dinner with Martez and his mom and dad. Martez’s mom and dad are from Mexico.

They have a Mexican dish with peppers, corn, and rice all mixed up. There are two dishes of it sitting side by side. One dish is red. One is green.

“Are the two dishes the same?” Kay asks.

“Nope,” says Martez with a smile. “The stuff in the red dish has lots of hot peppers . The stuff in the green dish has just green peppers, which are not as hot.”

Compare/Contrast Fiction

Martez points at his dad and says, “My dad likes hot peppers.” His dad smiles and nods.

Martez asks Kay, “Do you like hot peppers?”

Kay shrugs. She has never had hot peppers.

Kay has some food from the green dish. She likes it a lot. She says, “Could I have some from the red dish?”

“You can, but it’s hot, hot, hot!” says Martez. “We have a saying in our house: He is a brave man who has food from dad’s red dish!”

“Brave or perhaps foolish!” says his mom.

Compare/Contrast Fiction

Kay is brave—or perhaps foolish. She takes a bite of the peppers from the red dish. Martez looks at her. His mom and dad look, too.

“Do you like it?” asks Martez.

Kay’s face starts to get red. She yells, “Hot!”

Her face gets redder and redder.

Martez sees that Kay is in pain. He brings her ice cubes. Kay stuffs some in her mouth and lets them melt. The ice cubes help cool down her mouth.

Compare/Contrast Fiction

“Ug!” Kay says, sitting back from her plate. “Those peppers in the red dish are too hot for me! I need to stick to the green dish.”

“Still,” Martez says, “today you joined the club.”

“What club?”

“The I-ate-from-dad’s-red-dish-and-am-still-living-to-tell-the-tale club!” says Martez.

Martez and his mom and dad all smile. They like Kay.

Compare/Contrast Fiction

Multiple Choice

Which dish has the hot peppers?

Multiple Choice

What has Kay never had?

Open Ended

In your own words, describe what happened after Kay took a bite of the food in the red dish.

Open Ended

Would you take a bite of the food in the red dish? Why or Why not?

Wrtie at least 2 sentences.