My Name is Umme is a short story written for low level students. It is the low level companion story to the We Speak NYC episode, “Shumi’s Pantry”. This six session lesson set provides scaffolded routines and activities that students need to successfully read the short story.

Each of the six lessons is 1.5 hours, and the lessons are available as downloadable templates at this link: https://tinyurl.com/mynameisummelessonset

This video gives an overview of the lesson set and some of the routines and activities from the lesson set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9ChrF5Fko&t=3s