Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for The Sandwich Swap will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.
With themes of friendship, making, good choices, conflict, resolution, diversity, this The Sandwich Swap picture book by Queen Rania of Jordan Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!
Engage Your Students with The Sandwich Swap Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of The Sandwich Swap. You can find it in the section below.
- Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
- Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with The Sandwich Swap reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
THE SANDWICH SWAP SUMMARY
In The Sandwich Swap, Lilly and Salma are best friends. They do everything together. They play together, draw together, swing together, and jump rope together. They even eat lunch together.
One day Lily decides to tell Salma that her sandwich is gross. Then Salma tells Lily that she thinks her sandwich is gross too. This causes a huge conflict for the girls, and soon the other students join in on the conflict. A huge food fight erupts and the girls realize they need to resolve their conflict. The girls try each other’s sandwiches and realize that they really like them! This inspires them to create a picnic where students can bring in foods from all different countries for everyone to try.
Students will learn about friendships and solving conflicts as they hear about the problems the sandwiches started.
THE SANDWICH SWAP LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for The Sandwich Swap, we’ve already done all of the heavy lifting for you.
We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based The Sandwich Swap reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making predictions
- analyzing character
- making connections
- plot (problem-solution)
- cause and effect
- author’s purpose
- identifying theme, message and moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- friendship
- making good choices
- conflict
- resolution
- diversity
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- action verbs
- pronouns
- adjectives
THE SANDWICH SWAP ACTIVITIES
You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
What are the reading levels for The Sandwich Swap?
- Lexile® Measure: AD570L
- Guided Reading Level: N
- DRA Level: 28
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3-3.2
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Queen Rania of Jordan Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio. It was illustrated by Tricia Tusa.
What genre is The Sandwich Swap?
It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.
How many pages are in the book?
The story is 32 pages long.
