This book uses all tenses, but I've learned that very few kids actually see the ends of the words. The look at the stems, and so they recognize llega, llegó, and llegaba as "arrive" and their brain fills in the tense with context. It's pretty magical! You will always have that one really observant kid who will ask the grammar question, and then you can just praise him/her up and down for being so observant and tell them "yes, -aron is past tense for ellos!"
We read the first two chapters before I introduced any explicit grammar instruction. It took us about 5 weeks to get through, but admittedly, I stretched it out to get us through the end of the year and you could do it more quickly. A little bit of feedback from my students They thought the story was great! They also liked all the activities that we did with it and were proud of themselves for how much they understood. They suggested that I not assign Quizlets as homework because most people did not do them. I still think it was valuable to play the Quizlet games as follow up because it at least exposed them to new words before reading.
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Tara Brown
6/27/2018 11:41:12 am
Thank you so much! This is wonderful!! :-)
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Yajaira Guedez
7/23/2018 07:02:15 pm
¡Excelente plan! Gracias por compartirlo.
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Sra. Ta
9/17/2018 11:53:53 am
Muchas gracias por compartir tu plan. Esta semana voy a incorporar tus ideas en mi clase. :-)
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Sra. Lui
12/11/2018 11:31:47 am
¡Gracias por todo su trabajo en estos planes y trabajos! Empezamos el libro ayer y no sabía que actividades íbamos a hacer. ¡Esto es un milagro!
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Mercedes Mason
4/1/2019 07:24:54 am
Mil gracias por todo. Vamos a empezar el libro hoy:)
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Steve G-M
9/22/2019 09:53:31 am
Thank you for a good start with the book.
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Aleena Emerson
10/3/2019 08:56:02 am
Thank you so much for this great idea/ lesson plan resources!! I am starting the novel with my classes on Monday!
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Dennise Nelson
10/6/2019 06:59:46 pm
Excelentes actividades. Muchas gracias por compartirlo.
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Thomas Pierce
2/14/2020 12:17:59 pm
This is so great, thanks so much!
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