Abuela's Weave Read-Aloud Activities and Book Companion

- Grades
- Grades 2–4, Elementary
- Pages
- 44
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Reading Comprehension
- Topic
- Abuela's Weave, book companion
- Resource types
- Read Alouds, Activities
- Answer key
- Included
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Enhance your students' reading experience with this comprehensive companion for "Abuela's Weave" by Omar S. Casteneda. Featuring 38 ready-to-use activities, this resource is perfect for customizing learning to meet your students' needs and academic abilities.
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Designed to save you time and engage students effectively, these activities foster higher-level thinking skills and encourage textual evidence-based responses. Students will enjoy interactive and educational activities, while you appreciate having high-quality resources at your fingertips.
⭐️ Included in this Resource:
Making Predictions
Judging by the Cover
Story Elements
Sequencing
Recalling Events in Chronological Order
Summary
Story Event Sort
Making Connections
Visualizing
Making Inferences
Character Traits (Esperanza)
Character Traits (Esperanza & Abuela)
Character Inside & Out (Esperanza)
Character Inside & Out (Abuela)
Character Feelings (Esperanza)
Character Feelings (Abuela)
Character Development (Esperanza)
Character Development (Abuela)
Character Change (Esperanza)
Overcoming Obstacles
Sketch a Scene From the Story
Setting the Scene
Compare & Contrast
Thinking About the Text
Thinking Beyond the Text
Theme
Sensory Details
Author's Message
Trip to the Market
Dear Diary
Tapestry Design
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2 Crossword Puzzles (Answer Keys Included)
2 Word Search Puzzles (Answer Keys Included)
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Please note, this resource is designed for extension read-aloud activities only. The book "Abuela's Weave" is not included.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Sequence and summarize the main events of Abuela's Weave
- Describe how Esperanza and Abuela change using details from the story
- Identify the story's theme and support it with text evidence
Teaching tips
- Making Predictions and Judging by the Cover ask about the book before reading, so those pages could come before the first read-aloud and the character and theme pages after.
Skills covered
- Summarizing — students retell the story with a Somebody/Wanted/But/So organizer and an event sort
- Character analysis — students compare inside and outside traits and feelings for two characters
- Writing in role — students write a diary entry, advertisement and social media post drawn from the story
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Is the picture book part of this resource?
Abuela's Weave by Omar S. Castañeda needs to be read aloud from a separate copy; these pages are companion activities to use with the book.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Story elements
- Character traits
- Theme
- Sequencing
- Author's message
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