Celebrate Lunar New Year traditions with our Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival activities! Enrich literacy standards and skills with activities that also deepen understanding of Lunar New Year, family, and creative problem solving. Students will research and write about the Lantern Festival, label images, analyze character traits and story quotes, and design their own lanterns.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Design and create a paper lantern.
• Complete a lantern puzzle.
• Label images traditional to Lunar New Year.
• Write character traits that describe Amy Wu.
• Write facts about Lunar New Year.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Determine a problem/solution or cause/effect from the story.
• Write about the main idea and details.
• Respond to a quote from the story.
• Sequence the story.>
• Research Lunar New Year or Lantern Festival Day.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.

Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival activities and the Novel Effect soundscape immerse help readers understand and celebrate Lunar New Year.

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About the Book and Soundscape
Amy loves celebrating the Lunar New Year, especially carrying her family’s special lantern on Lantern Festival Day. But when an accident leaves it in pieces, will her favorite tradition be lost? With a rich blend of Chinese folk melodies, traditional instruments, and bilingual narration in English and Mandarin, this heartfelt soundscape beautifully honors family, culture, and resilience.
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