A 10-year-old girl named Bellen noticed that art kits in schools only included peach-colored crayons for drawing skin, but there are many skin colors in the world. She created special art kits with crayons in various skin tones to make all kids feel included and to show the diversity of skin colors. Bellen distributed the kits to schools in her area to help change perceptions and make drawing skin colors more inclusive and representative.
A 10-year-old girl named Bellen noticed that art kits in schools only included peach-colored crayons for drawing skin, but there are many skin colors in the world. She created special art kits with crayons in various skin tones to make all kids feel included and to show the diversity of skin colors. Bellen distributed the kits to schools in her area to help change perceptions and make drawing skin colors more inclusive and representative.
A 10-year-old girl named Bellen noticed that art kits in schools only included peach-colored crayons for drawing skin, but there are many skin colors in the world. She created special art kits with crayons in various skin tones to make all kids feel included and to show the diversity of skin colors. Bellen distributed the kits to schools in her area to help change perceptions and make drawing skin colors more inclusive and representative.
Title: crayons for change. Author: Juan Gabriel mallama
Main topic (summarize the article in one sentence):
1. "People's skin can be lots of beautiful colors."
Main ideas
2. Kids in class usually used the peach crayon to draw skin.
3. There are many people in this world and their skin have different colors. 4. Bellen wanted to create special art kits to show several skin colors. 5. One of the Bellen’s purpose is to make all kids feel like they belong to the society. 6. To change the world, we should turn our words into actions.
Review
7. What did you like the most from the reading?
I like the most that Bellen gave her kits to all of the schools in her area.
8. What did you like the least from the reading?
I like the least that when she was a child there wasn’t a crayon of her skin color.
Vocabulary words:
9. Crayon 10. Peach-colored
11. A very special girl 12. Kids 13. Color 14. Black-colored 15. Art kits 16. School 17. Skin 18. 10-year-old girl