He father sits her down to show her what her name looks like printed in English. Soon she will be starting school so she must learn to print her name in English. Yoon is a young girl who has just moved from Korea to America with her parents. THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: Read aloud the diverse picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills. Yoon’s name written in Korean.Our My Name is Yoon Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Helen Recorvits' book. Slowly, she learned that different is good and she can still be herself too. Yoon wanted to still be in Korea and didn’t want to fit in at first. I enjoyed this cultural book about fitting into a new place. She writes her name in English and it means Shining Wisdom. A girl at recess gives Yoon a cupcake and Yoon decides that her schoolmates will like her if she is a cupcake. She wants to go back to Korea where she is happy and the teacher likes her. When she attends school she learns about cat and must write her name on the paper, but she doesn’t want to write Yoon. It means Shining Wisdom, but her father reminds her that even when written in English her name still means Shining Wisdom. However, Yoon doesn’t want to write her name in English and feels her name looks happy in Korean. Her father tells her that now she must learn how to write her name in English. Yoon has moved to the United States from Korea and now must adjust to her new life.
My Name is Yoon Written by Helen Recorvits Illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska Published Apby Farrar, Straus and Giroux Genre/Topics: Cultural, Realistic Fiction, Korean Ages: 6+, 32 pages Awards: Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award (2004), Bank Street – Best Children’s Book of the Year (2008)
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