By Arthur Dorros
Illustrated by Elisa Kleven
This book is a good read aloud preschool-2nd grade
I would consider this book to be a predictable book, the young girl explains everything that her and her grandmother are going to do next. The book was a page turner because of the illustration.
Kleven did an amazing job when illustrating, she used bright colors creating a busy and beautiful city setting. Every page has a unique use of patterns throughout the book, from the pattern of Abuela’s skirt to the wings of the birds in the park.
I like the way Dorros incorporated the use of Spanish words through out the story. The book is way to introduce Spanish words to students, It can also be used to make word connection . For example I can say Buenos dias estudiante and ask the student to translate it.
children will be able to relate to the main character through her relationship with her grandmother the inspired adventure they share. This a good book use to examine other culture. Student will be able to identify the setting locations which is New York city. Student can share their experience if ever visiting New York City..
Question during group discussions-Who was the key character in the story .?
What will happen on there next adventure?
Imagine you can fly around your own city. What would you see? student will Draw and color what they would see, and write in 2-5 sentence what they would see.
Abuela can be read teaching Social Studies/Language Arts
Lesson Plan Idea: Study and research the places mentioned in the book, like the Statue of Liberty and Mexico. Student will use Spanish word to identify certain sequence in the story.
Vocabulary words
Abuela- Grandmother
Limonada- Lemonade
Me gusta- I like
Buenos dias- Good day or Good morning
Un gato- A cat
Un oso- A bear
Tio-Uncle
Tia- Aunt
Ven- come
vamos- Let's go
This book is a good choice for students to read. To children of a very young age, this book will not be predicable to some, if not all of the student. I like the way it incorporates Spanish with English because we have many Spanish speaking students in the United States today. I also like the vocabulary words that Lindsay wrote on the page. It can be used as a test for the students.
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading the story Abuela by Arthur Dorros and illustrated by Elisa Kleven. This story reminded me of a fantasy story mixed with contemporary realistic fiction. First it reminds me of fantasy because the grandmother and the little girl were flying in the story, going around the city of New York. It is realistic because the places in the story are real, such as the city of New York and the Statue of Liberty are real. They also visited shops and the park where all the birds were in the story. The illustrations were amazing in the story because they were very detailed, bright, and creative in how Elisa Kleven wanted her city to look. I also like in the end of the story how there are vocabulary words that you can read. I thought as I was reading that they would not have a glossary to define some of the words, but it turns out that they did. I would read this story to children in the first and second grade. I believe they would really like this story.
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The Abuela book is a great read for students that are being introduced to Spanish. It also helps the students that are spanish speaking learners want to interact because it is language they are use to hearing. This will allow the teacher to finally interact with the Spanish students on a level that they underestnd. I would think this book is for 3-4 graders. I like that fact that the grandmother was full of adventure and was just as fun as her grand child. This shows that grandparents are just as fun as kids. At the end of the book there are a list of phrases and words that are translated in spanish that are commonly used. This is a good technique because students can practice and quiz each other on the spanish they learned from the book. I would definitely put this in my library because it will relate to my students that have a hispanic background. This book can also work for a language arts and geography class. Having flash cards of different Spanish words and is a mini good lesson. Since Spanish is the second most in America, it will be effecctive to get the students introduced into the at an early age. Having the students research the famous attractions that were mention in the book like the statue of liberty, New York City is also a good homework activity. I did also think it had some fantasy aspects to it because the grandmother and child was flying around the city but it seen real by the places they were going, If I was to read this to my school kids, I think they would definitely enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this book. It can be used when in the process of teaching children Spanish. I can also be used in Geography or social studies. Normally when you read books about the grandparents they are pretty boring but this grandma was full of life and very adventurous. She loved doing things with her grandchild. Maybe it made her feel young again. I think this book is a great book for a multi cultural setting.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that this could be a fantasy story due to the flying in the story as if they had powers.
ReplyDeleteAbuela is great book filled with a lot of vocabulary words and good pictures. I love books for children that are full of bright colors and illustrations that children recognize. There are so many vocabulary words in the book that you can make lesson plans on or even turn learning the words into a game. The perfect way to introducing this book to your class would to ask if anyone knows what the word Abuela means. If they don't know you of course explain to them what the word means and where it comes from. This book is a perfect book for a social studies and foreign language classes. The illustrations of the book where in NYC so you can do a mini lesson on New York and talk about some of the major things located in New York. This book would be perfect for Hispanic children in the classroom because there are words in the book that they are familiar with. You never want all of your books to be focused on one race. You want everyone in the classroom to feel welcomed. So this book could be the start of an culture unit in your class.
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