Saida Goes to School in Afghanistan

Saida Goes to School in Afghanistan

Saida Goes to School in Afghanistan
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 1 to 3
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	3.24

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		brothers, jobs, likes, natural, span, tasty, vanilla, zinc, almost, badly, become, beef, bright, build, coal, country
	content words:		Twelve-year-old Saida

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Saida Goes to School in Afghanistan
By Colleen Messina

¹     Caption: Afghan girls wearing traditional clothing sing at a celebration of International Women's Day, March 8

²     You might not feel like going to school every day. But did you know that a little girl in Afghanistan wanted to go to school so badly that she told a stranger about it?

³     Saida lives in Afghanistan. A man came to her village and built a school. Saida told this man, "I don't have any more brothers. I want to go to school!" One of Saida's brothers had died because of the fighting in her country. Her family was very sad. Twelve-year-old Saida felt that going to school would help her future.

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Extended Activities:

1.  Pretend that Saida is coming over to your house for dinner. Write a menu of your favorite foods that you would serve to her.

2.  Imagine that you were rich and decided to build a new playground for Saida's school. Draw a map and label the kinds of equipment you would put on her new playground.

3.  Write a story about what Saida decided to study. What do you think that Saida will be when she grows up? Will she stay in Afghanistan or go somewhere else?

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