Lesson 6-Activities

• Divide the class into eight groups of students and give group a page of text from the book. (Provide a copy for each student in the group.) Simplify the text if necessary for your class. Assign cooperative learning roles to each student in the group such as: materials gather, recorder, reporter, time keeper, praiser, person in charge of making sure everyone is participating, etc.
• Discuss reading strategies with the class such as:
  
-looking at the pictures to find out what the text is about;
-scanning the text for familiar words and/or unfamiliar words;
-reading the first sentences of each paragraph before reading the entire text;
• Have each group skim their text in order to choose the picture that they think goes with it;
• Give them additional reading strategies to try for a few minutes at a time before they read the entire text. Provide dictionaries to look up words and/or allow them to ask you questions;
• Ask each group to write a summary (3-5 sentences) about their text;
• Have the reporter from each group show the picture and read the summary;
• After a reporter reads the summary have the class decide on one sentence that describes the picture best and to write the sentence on an index card;
• Have two group members from each group hold their pictures and index cards and all of the pairs order themselves in the sequence of the story.
• Read the story to the class.
• Discuss how the boy in the story woke up and what he was thinking about.

Assessment

• Are the students in the groups doing their jobs as well as participating in the reading tasks?; Are they speaking Spanish? Is their summary concise and well written?

Objectives Students will:

• work in groups to read and understand text from the story;
• use reading strategies ;
• summarize the text;
• report the summary to the class;
• organize themselves according to the sequence of the story;
• enjoy listening to the teacher read the story.

Language

• text from the book
• description of reading strategies in Spanish or English
• summary sentences

Materials

• Copies of text from the book for each student in each group;
• chart paper on which to write reading strategies

Standards Students:

• Communication 1.1 engage in conversations about the text and provide information when they report to the group about their reading and summarize the text;
• Communication 1.2 understand and interpret written information about the text and spoken information when they listen to their peers reports;
• Communication 1.3 present information to the class about their texts.
• Connections 3.1 reinforce their knowledge of reading and using reading strategies;.
• Communities 5.1 show evidence of becoming life-long learners when they enjoy reading and listening to the story Por fin es carnaval in Spanish.